FILE- In this April 19, 1943 file photo, a group of Jews areescorted from the Warsaw Ghetto by German soldiers. After a year of tough negotiations, Germany agreed Monday, Dec. 5, 2011, to pay pensions to about 16,000 Holocaust victims worldwide who survived wartime ghettos or were forced to hide from Nazi persecution. (AP Photo, File)
FILE-This Feb. 17, 1941 file photo shows a scene in the Warsaw Ghetto where Jews wearing white armlets bearing the Star of David board a tram marked with the words “For Jews Only.” After a year of tough negotiations, Germany agreed Monday, Dec. 5, 2011, to pay pensions to about 16,000 Holocaust victims worldwide who survived wartime ghettos or were forced to hide from Nazi persecution. (AP Photo, File)
German Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere lays a wreath at the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, July 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
This 1941 photo provided by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, shows two destitute children sitting with empty bowls on a street in the Warsaw ghetto. Germany has agreed to pay pensions to about 16,000 Holocaust victims worldwide who survived wartime ghettos or were forced to hide from Nazi persecution. However, part of the new agreement does not immediately cover survivors who were young Jewish children born in 1938 or later. (AP)
Jews talk to each others beside the barbed wires of the Auschwitz Death Camp before the March of the Living in Oswiecim, southern Poland, Monday, May 2, 2011. Thousands of people from around the world take part in the annual March of the Living paying tribute to the victims of the Holocaust at the former Nazi Death Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. AP
Holocaust survivor Mary Katz Erlich stand with a collection of photos from her childhood years, as she awaits the arrival of Egle and Aurimas Ruzgys, the Catholic family who rescued her and her family, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011, in New York. When Germany invaded Lithuania in 1941 and began the execution of Jewish families, Erlich and her family found refuge in the home of a local Catholic farmer Leokadija Ruzgys, the mother of Egle and Aurimas. The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, an organization honoring non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust, reunited Erlich and the Ruzgys children for Thanksgiving. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
After a year of tough negotiations, Germany agreed Monday, Dec. 5, 2011, to pay pensions to about 16,000 Holocaust victims worldwide who survived wartime ghettos or were forced to hide from Nazi persecution.
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