Austria agrees to pay for Jewish cemeteries

Malaysia News.Net
Tuesday 22nd December, 2009

Austria's government has agreed to pay $28.5 million for the restoration of the country's Jewish cemeteries.

More than six decades after the end of the brutal Nazi era, the chancellery has agreed to restore the cemeteries, many of which are in a dilapidated state

Austria's government will annually put one million dollars into a special fund over the next two decades, to be supplemented by the local Jewish community, which has already
raised an additional 20 million through donations.

The Jewish Community in Vienna has called the Viennese government's gesture an exemplary step for Europe.

Vienna has over 70 Jewish cemeteries, many of which were set up when Adolf Hitler annexed the country in March 1938.

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