Lawyers who are suing European companies over claims they profited from the Holocaust should not receive legal fees, according to a leader of U.S. Holocaust survivors. Roman Kent, chairman of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors, said last Friday the awarding of legal fees “is simply incomprehensible since it comes from the very assets stolen from us.”
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