Budapest Holocaust survivors get €10.9 million

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany has paid 10.9 million euros through its Budapest Fund to 5,755 survivors of the Holocaust in Budapest, managing director of the Conference's Hungary office told MTI on Friday.

The Claims Conference opened the Budapest Fund under an agreement with the German government back in June and has paid a one-off sum of 1,900 euros to 98 percent of the claimants since the announcement of the programme in August, said Judit Szekely.

Under the programme, those Jewish victims are entitled to the payment who survived Nazi persecution during WWII in the Budapest ghetto and who have not yet received compensation from other major programmes.

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