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del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 17:00 01/09/2007 Report: Jewish-German talks on funds for ghetto survivors deadlocked By DPA tags: compensation, Jews, survivors  Talks between Berlin and Jewish groups on pension awards to 70,000 survivors of Nazi-era ghettoes have deadlocked, the news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday. German pension funds have turned down applications from 64,000 of the survivors, only granting awards to people who could prove employment while confined to Jewish urban areas in Nazi-occupied Europe. Under German law, pre-1945 contributions to the pension funds do not have to be proved when obtaining a pension. Advertisement Spiegel said the Jewish Claims Conference (JCC) had rejected an offer of 75 million euros (101 million dollars) from the German government in lieu of pensions, saying it was too little. "We cannot accept it," Georg Heuberger, German envoy of the JCC, was quoted saying in the magazine to go on sale Monday. Survivor groups say Jewish people who remained in some kind of work in Nazi-occupied Europe in the 1939-1945 period have ended up worse off than slave labourers, who have received payments from a corporate compensation fund. The magazine said a protest was also likely from Israel. Chancellor Angela Merkel had telephoned Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to brief him on the global offer and he had later told aides the bid was insufficient, Spiegel said Bookmark to del.icio.us Sex slaves Studies show that 220 women were forced into prostitution by the German SS during WWII. Laughing through tears Hundreds gathered in Tel Aviv to pay their respects to beloved comic actor Yisrael Poliakov.   1.   Reach an agreement now 17:45  |  Leser 01/09/07   2.   Olmert says millions of euros not enough???? 19:01  |  Leona 01/09/07   3.   The war has been over 62 years. Move on. Get a life. 20:04  |  Kevin 01/09/07   4.   How much do Palestinians in Israeli-made ghettoes get? 20:25  |  peacelover 01/09/07   5.   I don`t get it 20:35  |  Jecheskel 01/09/07   6.   WHAT`S ALL THE FUSS ABOUT??? 21:18  |  Robert 01/09/07   7.   #4 ridiculous 01:40  |  Rab Burns 02/09/07   8.   Ben Gurion+Adenauer 01:41  |  Bernd 02/09/07   9.   #4 How much do Jews from Arab countries get? 02:18  |  Laila 02/09/07   10.   Germany will not pay 02:21  |  Elly Feuerwerk 02/09/07   11.   # 10 Elly feuerwerk 03:38  |  Bernd 02/09/07   12.   #9 what do they get? 10:51  |  Rab Burns 02/09/07   13.   #4 sorry laila 11:03  |  Rab Burns 02/09/07   14.   Summer 2006 11:03  |  Dav 02/09/07   15.   #4 continued 11:09  |  Rab Burns 02/09/07   16.   response to:The war has been over 62 years. Move on. Get a life. 18:50  |  Matt 16/09/07   17.   The Holocaust industry continues 05:22  |  Neil 01/11/07   18.   Shakedown of Germany, again 05:37  |  Neil 01/11/07

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