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Financial compensation to former Holocaust-era forced laborers will be completed ahead of the 60th anniversary of the defeat of

Financial compensation to former Holocaust-era forced laborers will be completed ahead of the 60th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany next May. The foundation responsible for the payments is running out of time.
The German Foundation "Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft" (EVZ) -- or "Remembrance, Responsibility, and Future" -- wants to complete the final compensation payments to former slave laborers during the Nazi era by mid-2005.
Board of trustees chairman Dieter Kastrup called the fund's work "a success story", as it faced a race against time. "Many victims are now in their seventies and eighties," he said in Berlin on Thursday. The feedback from those who had already received contributions had been overwhelming, he added.
So far, some

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