Lithuanian Jews who survived the Nazi Holocaust and Soviet terror during World War II will receive symbolic compensation from the Baltic state next year, a Jewish group leader said Wednesday.

Andrew Baker of the American Jewish Committee told journalists in Vilnius that three million litas (870,000 euros, $1.l4 million) "will be used as a symbolic payment to individual Lithuanian Jewish survivors of totalitarian regimes."

Faina Kukliansky, a leader in Lithuania's small Jewish community of around 5,000, said she expected more than a thousand people to share the funds next year. "It is a symbol which proves that Lithuanian Jews are full members of a tolerant and open Lithuanian society," she told journalists.