Germany Agrees to Pay Pensions to 16,000 Holocaust Victims

NEW YORK –  After a year of tough negotiations, Germany has agreed to pay pensions to about 16,000 additional Holocaust victims worldwide -- mostly survivors who were once starving children in Nazi ghettos, or were forced to live in hiding for fear of death.

The agreement announced Monday between the New York-based Claims Conference and the German government is "not about money -- it's about Germany's acknowledgment of these people's suffering," said Greg Schneider, the conference's executive vice president.

"They're finally getting recognition of the horrors they endured as children," he told The Associated Press.

Of the new beneficiaries, 5,000 live in the United States....