Former Jewish Slave Laborers Urged to Register Before End Cf Year

The final call for registration by former Jewish inmates of Nazi concentration camps, who toiled as slave laborers for private German firms, was issued today by the Committee of Former Jewish Slave Laborers in Germany, which was ‘set up in cooperation with leading national and world Jewish organizations.

The Committee is seeking to gain compensation from German firms for the benefit of their surviving Jewish slave laborers, along the same lines as are provided by the agreements reached with the I. G. Farben and the Friedrich Krupp companies. The Committee desires to register the surviving slave laborers, so that they might not be excluded from the benefits of any future settlements which may be reached. It is in the claimants’ own interest, the Committee emphasized, to give the matter their immediate attention, and to register by December 31, 1960. The Committee makes no charge for its services, norddoes it act as a legal representative of individual claimants.

Communications should be addressed to the Compensation Treuhand, Staufenstrasse 29a, Frankfurt-are-Main, Germany, and should contain the following information; full name, address, date and place of birth, name of German firm, and the place and dates where the slave labor was performed. The Compensation Treuhand is a special trust set up to administer the funds to be paid out under the I. G. Farben and the Krupp agreements.

Former slave laborers at the I. G. Farben and the Fried rich Krupp companies, who have already registered with the Compensation Treuhand, are requested not to register again, as their claims are already on file. Slave laborers at other companies, who were in previous correspondence with the Committee of Former Jewish Slave Laborer at its New York office, need not register again, at this time.