Berlin - Around a million Nazi-era slave workers and other Holocaust survivors came a step closer to compensation yesterday as Germany said it had transferred funds to national foundations set up to distribute the cash.
German officials in Berlin said partner organisations in Poland, the Czech Republic and the United States-based Jewish Claims Conference had been sent payments from a $4.4 billion fund jointly financed by German state and industry. Under an international accord reached last year, it is up to national organisations to make payments to individual victims.