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Holocaust "survivors" sue Israel !!!
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Posted by admin on: 2006-09-13 12:09:12
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“All the years we have lived very hard lives, hand to mouth, and suddenly we find out that money had come for us that we have never seen”, says Chaim Robinson (71) from Tel Aviv. “We feel cheated. The state was supposed to be our mother and father, but we were young and orphaned, and they took advantage of us”.
Robinson, together with 272 other people, all in their 70’s and 80’s, are suing the state to pay them their portion of the reparations agreement signed by Israel and Germany. All the plaintiffs were born in Poland and, after the war began, wandered for three and a half years as refugee children in Europe.
“This is the first time that a group of Holocaust survivors is suing the State of Israel”, he says. “All the past suits were against foreign agents such as the banks of Switzerland. It is not easy for these people to sue the state, because throughout the years they were given the impression that they should be thankful they survived- and be quiet”.
On September 10, 1952 the reparations agreement was signed. The Israeli delegation at the negotiations with the Germans did not include a single Holocaust survivor. The amount, 3.450 billion Marks, was paid mostly in merchandise, fuel and services. Part of that sum was delineated as reimbursement for the expenses related to the absorption and rehabilitation of the survivors.
The agreement also exempted Germany from paying disability reparations to those who were injured in Nazi persecutions and had already come to Israel.
“Where is the money that the State of Israel received for me and for the rest of the survivors?” wonders Robinson. “We did not receive a cent. When I wanted to apply to a teacher’s seminary and asked for assistance because I was a Holocaust survivor, they said to me ‘You are European; we only help those from Eastern countries’. The money that was meant for our rehabilitation went to the wrong place, and we did not receive any of it”.
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News Source: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3302786,00.html
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