More than 300 former Jewish DP’s have already filed indemnification claims with West German state governments for imprisonment in concentration camps and other forms of Nazi oppression from which they suffered, it was reported here today. Another 400 have filed similar claims in Toronto and the total figure for Canada is expected to be well over 1,000.
To help the ex-DP’s file their claims, the Canadian Jewish Congress has retained Joseph S. Riwosch, a 36-year-old Lithuanian-born lawyer who is himself a recent immigrant to Canada. Mr. Riwosch, who was a Nazi prisoner in Poland during the war, is an expert on German law. After the war he became head of the War Criminals Section of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Munich. Working with U.S. Military Government authorities, he helped locate war criminals and compile evidence against them. He estimates that he has participated in about 1,000 war crimes trials in Hamburg, Nuremberg, Dachau and in the Soviet zone.
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