Board urges Government not to end Holocaust compensation scheme

Board president Vivian Wineman has written to Dr Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovations and Skills, to urge the Government not to scrap the scheme which compensates Holocaust victims for their financial losses during the war.

The Government has been considering scrapping the Enemy Property Payment Scheme, a decsion which Mr Wineman says is “premature”.

Read the full text of the letter here 

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