After 80 years, survivors of the “Kindertransport” evacuation of Jewish children from Nazi Germany and elsewhere in Europe before World War II will receive compensation from the German government. The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, also known as the Claims Conference, said the German government agreed to pay each person still alive a one-time compensation of 2,500 euros ($2,800), according to Haaretz. The Kindertransport rescue effort sent nearly 10,000 children, most of them Jewish, from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Free City of Danzig to the United Kingdom ― without their parents or other family members. It began in December 1938 and continued until just before the war began in Europe in September 1939.

Source: Huffington Post December 17, 2018 14:15 UTC