Background on the Holocaust reparations program

Copy/paste this link to get some background on the Holocaust reparations program:

http://www.iom.int/jahia/webdav/shared/shared/mainsite/about_iom/en/council/83/MCINF248.pdf

From the above:

"...By accepting to be a partner organization of the German Foundation and one of the 

implementing organizations of the Swiss Banks Settlement Agreement, IOM has put itself at the 

service of groups of elderly, vulnerable people, all of whom have been victims of the Nazi 

regime, and most of whom have been hoping for this gesture of recognition for over 50 years. 

They are first and foremost human beings, with feelings, memories, emotions, and expectations. 

IOM has to strike the right balance between two poles:  the human aspect and the prescribed 

parameters for the programmes establishing criteria, categories and ceilings.  The fact that there 

are hundreds of thousands of claimants who are spread all over the world and that, given their 

age, time is of the essence, adds to the challenge."

Well done, IOM.
Information on how the IOM decided who was entitled to reparations:

http://www.redress.org/downloads/Assessment_of_harm_in_German_forced_labor.pdf