70th anniversary of the Luxembourg Agreements – Holocaust reparations At the invitation of the German Federal Minister of Finance, Christian Lindner, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (the Claims Conference) joined the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz and Israel’s minister for Social Equality, Meirav Cohen in Berlin to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Luxembourg Agreements. On September 10, 1952, these groundbreaking agreements for compensation to Jewish survivors of the Nazi regime and to the State of Israel were the first-ever agreement between a defeated country and the civilians they persecuted. The agreement in 1952 saw...