This is provided for in a draft new wording of the Law on Good Will Compensation for the Immovable Property of Jewish Religious Communities.

Under the existing law, which was adopted in 2011, Lithuania committed itself to paying over 37 million euros over a decade in compensation for the property of Jewish communities expropriated by totalitarian regimes.

In the new bill, initiated by Simonyte, the government is adding a provision that compensation will also be paid for the property of persons of Jewish nationality who lived in Lithuania before or during World War II.

The draft law provides for allocating an additional 37 million euros for this purpose.

"This symbolic sum is intended to restore at least partial justice and to ensure the fostering of Lithuanian Jews, their culture and heritage," the bill's explanatory note reads.

If the state provides funds to compensate for the expropriation of private property of Lithuanian Jews, most of the money will have to continue to be spent through the Good Will Foundation for the purpose of fostering the Lithuanian Jewish community.

However, the new wording will allow the foundation to allocate 5 million to 10 million euros to meet individual requests for compensation for immovable property.

The draft law has yet to be approved by the Cabinet and will then go to the parliament for adoption.

Around 90 percent of Lithuania's pre-war Jewish population of around 208,000 were killed during the Nazi rule between 1941 and 1944.

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