The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, better known as the Claims Conference, announced on Oct. 6 that it had secured an additional $767 million in benefits for Holocaust survivors. During the past 70 years, the German government has set aside more than $90 billion for survivors.

As part of the most recent negotiations, the Claims Conference said that Germany had agreed to recognize the extreme suffering of Russian Jews who had endured the more than two-year Nazi siege of Leningrad, now St. Petersburg.

An additional 2,000 Holocaust survivors who hid in France and Romania will also qualify for the pensions. Another 1,700 survivors who were children during the Holocaust and had previously received one-time payments will now be eligible for supplemental hardship payments.