Details to be finalized for Austria's contribution to Nazi slave labor victims

Compensation for Nazi slave labor victims will also be paid by Austria. Some lawyers, representing the Austrian Jewish Community are delaying the compensation payments. They are demanding an assurance that part of the money devoted to compensation will also be paid to compensate for lost property. Without their signature, the procedure of paying compensation cannot be initiated. Surviving slave laborers, and beneficiaries of victims who died after Feb. 15, 2000, are entitled to apply for compensation. The amount will be the same for all victims. According to data from the Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie foundation, which is responsible for verifying the information, there are 500,000 people entitled to such compensation living in Poland. (Zycie, page 7)