A delegation representing the Committee for Jewish Claims on Austria conferred here today with the Austrian Vice-Chancellor Dr. Bruno Pittermann, urging that his government broaden the scope of existing domestic legislation to provide compensation for Nazi victims.
The delegation placed great weight, in the course of the conference, on the fact that “thousands of Jews who were victims of Nazi persecution in Austria continue to await some measure of compensation for losses and injuries inflicted upon them.” Many of the victims, the Jewish leaders underscored, have reached an advanced age and now live in dire need.
The four-man delegation also called for the payment of compensation to the Jewish communities of Austria for synagogues and related communal institutions destroyed during the Nazi era, and for the extension of aid to those communities along the same lines as the government pursued with other religious bodies.
The members of the delegation were Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chairman; Adolph Held, president of the Jewish Labor Committee; Dr. Gustav Jellinek, president of the American Federation of Jews from Austria; and Saul Kagan, secretary of the Committee for Jewish Claims on Austria.
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