Germany agrees to pay pensions to more Holocaust survivors

Germany has agreed after a year of tough negotiations to pay pensions to about 16,000 additional Holocaust victims all over the world.

The agreement between the New York-based Claims Conference and the German government to pay the survivors - mostly those who were once starving children in Nazi ghettos or forced to live in hiding for fear of death - was "not about money - it's about Germany's acknowledgement of these people's suffering", said Greg Schneider, the conference's executive vice president.