January 1,1945 has been set as the deadline for filling claims for apartments taken from Jews during the occupation, under a goverment decree made public today.
It is pointed out here, however, that at least half of the apartments will never be claimed, either because the original occupants are dead, or because the former tanants lack the means to engage in a lengthy legal struggle for the dwellings.
About ten percent of the claims filed up to now have resulted in favorable decisions from the courts, while only three percent were disallowed. The majority, as can be seen from these figures, are still pending fifteen months after this city’s liberation.
It was announced today that among the bodies of fifteen resistance heroes which will be reburied in the Mont Valerien national cemetery on Armistice Day is that of Reme Levy, young Jewish girl, who was shot by the Germans in Cologne in April, 1943.
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