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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.  Email this story to a friend
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Anonymous
12-23-09, 04:34 PM |
Austrian government to pay for Jewish cemetery upkeep
What’s next on their Christmas wish list? Shall we pay for the maintenance of the cemetary also???
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Anonymous
12-23-09, 05:12 PM |
mean while back at the ranch
Bodies are buldozed into pits.. what a double standard
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