Holocaust Fund May Be Matched

The German government might end up giving as much to compensate Holocaust survivors as 16 companies that are setting up a billion-dollar fund, a spokesman for the companies’ fund said in New York. “So far, one can expect the amount of money needed for both foundations to be more or less the same,” said Wolfgang Gibowski of the Remembrance, Responsibility and the Future fund. The fund started with promises of about $1.7 billion. A German government spokesman said a proposal to create a federal foundation would be put before parliament but that its size had not been discussed.