The successful negotiation in 1955 of bulk settlements of its claims to heirless Jewish assets against the German Federal Republic and the City of West Berlin remain the outstanding problems facing the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization, the board of directors was informed at its seventh annual meeting held yesterday. The successful negotiation of these settlements would bring the JRSO substantially closer to the completion of its entire restitution program.
The JRSO, which was formed in 1947 by a group of leading Jewish organizations in the U.S., Great Britain, France and Germany to press its claims against Germany to heirless Jewish assets, has successfully settled to date the overwhelming bulk of these claims within the Laender of the U.S. Zone of Germany.
The annual meeting elected Dr. Israel Goldstein president for 1954-55. Monroe Goldwater was chosen chairman of the executive committee. Other officers elected included: vice-presidents: Jacob Blaustein, Randolph Bohrer, Frederick Borchardt, Nahum Goldmann, Dr. Isaac Lewin and Edward M.M. Warburg; co treasurers: Dr. Herman Gray and Shad Polier; and secretary, Saul Kagan. The JRSO also ratified an agreement with the Council for the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Jews from Germany which was recently negotiated in Paris.
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