The Bavarian Parliament has appointed new officers of the “Advisory Council on Indemnification,” an institution that checks on the progress of indemnification for individual Nazi victims and on the performance of the governmental agencies concerned with the administration of the program.
The new officers of the Council include two representatives of the Jewish community, Prof. Baruch Graubard and Edmund Jonas, a banker. Of the officers who are members of Parliament, five belong to the Christian Social Union, four to the Social Democratic Party, two to the Bavarian Party, one each to the Free Democrats and to the BHE refugee party. Among the Christian Social Union members is Baron Rudolf von Hirsch, 80-year-old nephew of Baron Maurice de Hirsch, greatest Jewish philanthropist of the nineteenth century.
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