The funding, secured on Wednesday after months of talks with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, will allow every Holocaust survivor currently on waiting lists to receive home-care assistance starting in 2026. Home-care programs allow survivors to live independently and securely in their own homes, offering a sense of stability deeply meaningful to those who endured the horrors of displacement and trauma in their youth during the Holocaust.

Stuart E. Eizenstat, who led the negotiations for the Claims Conference, called the agreement “the largest home-care budget in our history,” saying it marks a milestone in efforts that began more than seven decades ago.

“The importance of this year’s negotiations is not simply that we were successful in obtaining supplemental funding during a difficult budgetary year,” he said. Despite very real budgetary constraints, the German government remains steadfast in its support for Holocaust survivors.”