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Sweden cuts Auschwitz survivor Miriam Landau's pension

An Auschwitz survivor is fighting to keep her full pension after the tax authorities in Sweden decided to cut it back because she received compensation from the German Government for her wartime trauma.

Miriam Landau, 84, was told by the Swedish Social Insurance Agency that it was clawing back much of the 80,000 krona (£6,400) in reparations that she was given for the time spent working in a ghetto in Hungary and in the death camp in Poland, because it counted as a pension.

Mrs Landau came to Sweden with her husband in the 1950s under a special scheme designed to offer a new life to victims of Nazi persecution. She was unable to work because of tuberculosis brought on during her time in the ghetto and Auschwitz.

She must now bring a case at the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden to try to overturn the decision to take account of the work that she has been paid for by Germany, which led to her pension being recalculated over 35 years instead of 40.

Read entire article at Times (UK)