Lithuanian Jews to get compensation for Holocaust, Soviet occupation

November 7, 2013

(JTA) — Government officials in Lithuania said they would offer symbolic reparations to nearly 1,800 Jewish Holocaust survivors. The officials told the Baltic News Agency on Wednesday that each survivor will receive a payment of $622 this year. The compensation was also for “suffering during the Soviet occupation,” according to the announcement.

Vladini predstavnici su izjavili da će ponuditi "simboličnu" reparaciju za blizu 1.800 Židova koji su preživjeli Holokaust . Oni su za "Baltic News Agency"  kazali da će svaki preživjeli dobiti ove godine 622 dolara. Kompenzacija je također za "patnje u toku sovjetske okupacije",  prema  tim najavama. Litvanska vlada je bila suočena sa kritikama internacionalnih foruma, uključujući "Simon Wiesenthal centar" da  izjednačava  (pravi paralele) između nacizma i komunizma. . 

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In 2011, the Lithuanian Parliament voted to offer Holocaust survivors and the Jewish community compensation for assets seized during the Holocaust. The government set up a $50 million fund to support the “religious, cultural and social” needs of Lithuania’s Jewish community.

Lithuania had a Jewish population of 250,000 in 1939, but 95 percent of its Jews were murdered during the Holocaust by Nazi soldiers and Lithuanian collaborators. Today Lithuania has some 5,000 Jews, according to the European Jewish Congress.

Litvanija je imala  u 1939. godini židovsku populaciju od 250.000, ali je 95% Židova ubijeno u Holokaustu od nacističkih vojnika i litvanskih kolaboracionista. Danas ima oko 5.000 Židova , prema podacima Europskog židovskog kongresa.