LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For 93-year-old Paul Kester, the sum of $2,800 (2,218.35 pounds) offered him by the German government for his childhood ordeal during the Nazi era can never replace what he lost, but he welcomes the payment as recognition that "this history is not forgotten."
Kester, who spent his early years in Germany, was just 13 when he was sent away by his parents to Sweden as part of the Kindertransport, a rescue mission that allowed some 10,000 Jewish children to flee Nazi-occupied Europe in the late 1930s.