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| | UJC - Some Jews in Former Soviet Union Suffer Because of 'Fortunate Geography' |
 | | PYATIGORSK, Russia, Sept. 9 (JTA) -- Tanya Izyaeva lives with her father and grandmother in a garbage-filled shack in this former spa town about two hours from the Chechen border. |
 | | Today, says Ildatova, virtually all the money the Pyatigorsk Hesed has to work with comes from restitution funds, principally from the Claims Conference and the Swiss bank settlement, which because of legal decisions must be used only for camp survivors and Jews who lived under Nazi occupation. |
 | | Pyatigorsk and its surrounding spa towns are where the 19th-century czarist aristocracy and, later, the Communist elite, built their vacation homes. |
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