ホロコースト生存者、世界で約２４万５０００人

【ベルリンＡＦＰ＝時事】第２次世界大戦終結から８０年近くたったいま、ナチス・ドイツによるホロコースト（ユダヤ人大量虐殺）の生存者は９０か国以上で約２４万５０００人に上るとする調査結果が２３日、発表された。（写真は資料写真）
　ホロコースト生存者への補償確保を目的とする団体「対独ユダヤ物的損害請求会議」によると、生存者のうち１１万９３００人がイスラエル、３万８４００人が米国、２万１９００人がフランス、１万４２００人がドイツに在住している。
　調査報告書は、「生存者のほぼ全員はナチスの迫害を受けた当時は子どもで、収容所、ゲットー（ユダヤ人隔離居住区）、逃亡・潜伏生活を体験してきた人々」だと指摘。
　ギデオン・テイラー代表は、生存者の年齢の中央値は８６歳で、「介護や支援を受ける必要性が増加している」とする一方で、「生存者の数が減少してきている現状にこれまで以上に関心を高めなくてはならない」との考えを示した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/01/24-15:57）

Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, there are still about 245,000 Holocaust survivors alive across more than 90 countries, a study showed Tuesday.
According to the Claims Conference, an organisation that seeks damages for Holocaust survivors, 119,300 of them live in Israel, 38,400 in the United States, 21,900 in France and 14,200 in Germany.
Nearly all of the current population of survivors were children at the time of Nazi persecution, having survived camps, ghettos, flight and living in hiding, said the report, underlining that children had the slimmest chances of surviving.
With a median age of 86 now, they are at a period of life where their need for care and services is growing, said Gideon Taylor, president of the Claims Conference, adding that it was time to double down on our attention to this waning population.
The report is the most comprehensive in recent years, drawing on an unprecedented worldwide database of survivors, the conference said.
Founded in 1951, the Claims Conference has been the main organisation seeking damages for Holocaust survivors, and was a signatory to the Luxembourg Agreement under which West Germany assumed responsibility for Nazi atrocities and paid reparations.
The signing of the accord by West Germany was widely seen as its first major step back into the community of nations after World War II in which six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.
Since then, Germany has paid more than $90 billion as a result of negotiations with the Claims Conference, according to the group.
Some survivors -- such as those incarcerated in concentration camps -- remain eligible for ongoing payments, while others -- including those who fled from the Nazi regime -- get one-off payouts.