The Federation of Jewish Communities of Austria announced today that claims had been filed with the Austrian Government for more than $1,200,000 in compensation for Jews forced to wear the Star of David on their clothing during the Nazi regime in Austria.
Community leaders estimated that there were more than 5,000 Austrian Jews each of whom was seeking the equivalent of $240 in compensation for having been singled out for humiliation by the post-Anschluss regime in Austria. Other claims have been advanced in behalf of Jews forced to give up jobs, careers and studies as a result of Nazi persecution.
The community leaders further announced that some 1,500 Jews who ended up in Shanghai under internment by the Japanese plus thousands of others interned in Italy, Rumania, Hungary and Slovakia after fleeing Nazism in Austria were asking lump sum compensation amounting in aggregate to some $4,400,000. Also, several hundred Jews who survived the Nazi terror until the Liberation in 1945 by hiding underground seek compensation of $14 a month for the time they were living in hiding.
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