The North Rhine-Westphalian provincial government today passed a law giving official status to Jewish communities in the state. The regulation recognizes the right of the communities to collect a “synagogue tax” and names the communities as successors to the pre-Nazi Jewish communities in the province.
Jewish communal organizations in Hesse today protested the dismissal of Dr. Kurt Epstein, a Jew, from the post of state director of restitution and indemnification. Dr. Epstein was dismissed several days ago on charges of having delayed the preparation of documents connected with the provincial restitution and indemnification law.
A total of 19,693 applications for indemnification and restitution–including 168 from abroad–have been filed with the Bavarian Land Office as of January 10, it was revealed today. Some 1,200 applications were cleared and to date 29,000,000 Deutsche marks have been paid out in claims, while approximately 3,500 applications are currently being processed, it was reported.
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