Follow negations with the German Government, the claims Conference has obtained changes to eligibility for the Article 2 Fund and the Hardship Fund, enabling certain Holocaust survivors to receive payments. All Changes are effective January 01, 2012

Jewish Holocaust Survivors may be eligible for a payment from the Article 2 Fund who do not already receive a pension from a German source (Article @ Fund, CEEF, German Federal Indemnification Law – BEG- Bundesentschaedigungsgesetz, PRVG, Austrian OFG – Opferfursorgegesetz, Israeli Ministry of Finance under the Nazi Persecution Disabled Persons Law 5717-1957) and:

i) Were incarcerated in a ghetto as defined by the German Government for at least 12 months; or
ii) Lived in hiding for at least 12 months, under inhumane conditions without access to the outside world in Nazi-occupied territory and Nazi Satellite states, (Nazi instigation); or
iii) Lived under false identity for at least 12 months in Nazi-occupied territory and Nazi Satellite states (Nazi instigation)

Holocaust survivors who are age 75 or over and who were incarcerated in a ghetto as define by the German Government for at least three months (but less than 12 months) and who do not already receive a pension from a German source (as listed above), may be eligible for a pension of 240 Euros per month.

Hardship Fund

Applicants may be eligible for a one-time payment of 2,556 Euros from the Hardship Fund if they fled between June 22, 1941 and January 27, 1944 from areas of the Soviet Union that were up to 100 kilometers from the most easterly advance of the German army (Wehrmacht) but were not later occupied by the Nazis. Those Eligible will include Jews who fled from Moscow and Stalingrad. Eligible Victims will also include those who fled from Leningrad after Jun 22, 1941 but before the siege of that city commenced in September 1941.

Hardship funds payments may be made to eligible applicants who were citizens of certain Western European countries at the time of Nazi persecution and also at the time of the country’s Global Agreement with Germany. “Western Persecutees” who think they may be eligible and have not already applied to the Hardship Fund should file an Application. Western Persecutees are only eligible and have not already applied to the Hardship Fund if they have not received a previous payment from a German source, including from a Global agreement.

For more information, to find out if you may be eligible, please contact Iris Beer at 613-722-2225 ext. 311 or by email.