06 September 2015

Amsterdam to repay fines


Maya Rhodan has a Time article about belated munificence:
Amsterdam, Holland (photo) will pay the descendants of Jews who were charged late rent while housed in concentration camps during World War Two. The city said in a statement that the fines were “unfairly collected” and that relatives will be repaid.
About eighty thousand Jews were taken from Amsterdam to concentration camps between 1940 and 1945. Only about eighteen thousand survived, according to Agence France Presse. About two hundred and forty survivors of concentration camps were forced to pay fines for uncollected rent when they returned to Amsterdam, a Dutch Institute of War, Holocaust, and Genocide study shows.
The descendants will receive about 1,800 euros, on average, for the fines imposed, but the exact sum depends on the case.
Rico says it's damned nice of them, if just a little late...

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