During Holocaust Education Week, Florida highlights Holocaust Victims Assistance Program - WFTV Orlando

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In designation of Holocaust Education Week, Florida is highlighting its Holocaust Victims Assistance Program.

According to a caller merchandise from the Florida Department of Financial Services, the programme helps each Florida Holocaust survivors successful their betterment of proceeds from security policies issued to Holocaust victims and restitution for Nazi-confiscated slope accounts, creation and property.

Holocaust Education Week takes spot during the 2nd week of November, which corresponds with the day of Kristallnacht, a defining infinitesimal successful the favoritism and persecution of Jewish families by the Nazis.

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“During Holocaust Education Week, we basal unneurotic to admit the victims and survivors of the Holocaust. This unthinkable calamity indispensable ne'er beryllium forgotten, and we indispensable guarantee that each Floridians are educated connected this tragic portion of past truthful we volition ne'er relive it,” said Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis. “Last year, we assisted survivors and their families with securing much than $15 cardinal done our Holocaust Victims Assistance Program, and I anticipation to spot these claims resolved, and spot recovered. Florida is arrogant to beryllium location to the 3rd largest Jewish colonisation successful the country, and arsenic CFO, I’m ever arrogant to enactment Florida’s Jewish community.”

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Since 1998, Florida has worked to reunite Florida Holocaust survivors seeking to retrieve stolen assets, specified arsenic confiscated slope accounts, creation and property, determined by the Holocaust Victims Assistance Act.

Since it began, the programme has recovered much than $92 million.

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The Florida Department of Financial Services provides acquisition and assistance to Holocaust survivors and their heirs regarding restitution programs from Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, France, Austria, Hungary and different countries.

If you request assistance with filing a Holocaust-era fiscal assertion oregon assistance successful obtaining societal payment services tin interaction the Holocaust Victims Assistance Helpline by telephone astatine (800) 388-4069 oregon via email astatine HolocaustAssistance@MyFloridaCFO.com.

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