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Jews to Ask Britain to Safeguard Jewish Rights in Germany

January 14, 1955
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A deputation from the Board of Deputies of British Jews will call at the Foreign Office next Wednesday to ask the British Government to use its good offices to safeguard the rights of the Jewish residents of West Germany under the new treaties to be written between Bonn and various Allied nations restoring sovereignty to West Germany.

The Jewish deputation is expected to raise the question of speeding up the handling of indemnification and compensation claims filed by individual victims of the Nazis. It will also ask that access to the files of the International Tracing Service at Arolsen, Germany, on which the legal validity of many of the claims are based, be safeguarded when they are handed over to Germany.

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