Germany to help Baltic Jews
by MOSCOW (JTA) -- A German province is planning to compensate -- and lobby for--Lithuania's Holocaust survivors., The Brandenburg Parliament already has earmarked several thousand dollars to compensate Jews living in the Baltic nation, and it
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Some public organizations, companies and individuals from Brandenburg, which is located in eastern Germany, already have offered to aid some members of the Lithuanian Jewish community.
More than 90 percent of Lithuania's prewar Jewish community of 250,000 was exterminated during the Nazi occupation.
Lithuanian survivors, like Holocaust survivors in other parts of the former Soviet Union, were unable to file for individual compensation from Germany during the Cold War.
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