The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, a New York-based organization, announced on Oct. 14 that after negotiations with the German government on behalf of Holocaust Survivors, Germany has agreed to give $662 million in aid to an estimated 240,000 survivors. These funds are additional to the global allocation of over $653 million for social welfare services, said  Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat, claims conference special negotiator.

The funds will go to survivors, who mostly live in Israel, North America, the former Soviet Union, and Western Europe. However, as a result of the negotiations, Germany has also agreed to expand the categories of survivors eligible for payments by including the results of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum regarding “open ghettos” in Bulgaria, plus ghettos in Romania as a result of a report by Yad Vashem.