The Claims Conference is launching a worldwide effort to locate an estimated 170,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors who may be eligible to receive payments from a $5 billion German fund to compensate Holocaust-era slave laborers. Claimants, who face an August 2001 deadline, can obtain application forms from the group’s Web site at www.claimscon.org.
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