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Restituting History: The Search for Documentation
Payments Under Additional Labor Distribution Fund
Payments to Forced Laborers Who Were Not Deported
Survivor Profile:
Gisele Schlanger
The Claims Conference has paid 146,513 Holocaust survivors and claims from 20,003 heirs of victims a total of approximately $1.2 billion from the German Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility, and the Future," under this program to date.
In addition, 173,926 survivors and claims from heirs of victims have been approved to receive a total of approximately
$252 million from the Claims Conference, with funds from the Swiss Banks Settlement, as compensation for slave and forced labor.
Payments have been made in 75 countries.
Claims Conference Programs:
Program for Former Slave and Forced Laborers
Swiss Banks Settlement: Slave Labor Class I
Persons who involuntarily worked for little or no remuneration at the insistence or direction of the Nazi Regime (including Axis countries) may be entitled to a payment of up to $1,450 from the Swiss Banks Settlement. Holocaust survivors who have applied to the German Foundation, “Remembrance, Responsibility and the Future,” established to compensate former slave and forced laborers under the Nazis, will automatically be considered for an additional payment from the Swiss Banks Settlement. Thus, they need not apply specifically for the Swiss Banks Settlement. THERE IS NO SEPARATE APPLICATION FOR THIS PAYMENT.
Heirs (spouse, children, grand-children, siblings and testamentary heirs) of former forced and slave laborers who died after February 15, 1999 are also eligible for payment from this fund.
Jewish residents of the Czech Republic, Poland or the former Soviet Union should contact the local Claims Conference office in those countries. Non-Jewish applicants should contact the International Organization for Migration.