Germany will pay £2,250 to Kindertransport child survivors who were evacuated to Britain to escape the Nazis in central Europe.
The announcement coincides with the 80th anniversary of the 1938 evacuation, when the UK accepted thousands of children after Kristalnacht as the situation for Jews in Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia reached crisis proportions.
The New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims said the German government had agreed to a one-off payment of €2,500 (£2,250) to the survivors, most of whom never saw their parents again.
“After having to endure a life forever severed from their parents and families, no one can ever profess to make them whole; they are receiving a small measure of justice,” said Stuart Eizenstat, the Claims Conference special negotiator.
