The United Restitution Office, a non-profit organization which provides legal assistance to indigent Jewish indemnification applicants in pressing their claims before German administrative agencies and courts, has opened new German headquarters here.
The URO, which is incorporated in London, maintains branch offices in Israel, New York, London and Paris, as well as in half a dozen German cities. Now that the Conference on Jewish Material Claims has allotted it sufficient funds, URO plans to establish additional bureaus in Stockholm, Brussels, Australia and South America, so as to cope with the flood of perhaps 200,000 applications expected under the Federal Indemnification Law which has been on the books since last fall, but has not so far been implemented.
URO’s director of operations is Benjamin B. Ferencz, a New York attorney who also serves as director-general of the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization, and as director for Germany of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims. For the present, the headquarters of JRSO will remain in Nuremberg, those of the Conference in Bonn.
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