Headquarters in Germany of the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization, which since its establishment in 1948 were located in Nuremberg, have been moved to Frankfurt.
The only other West German branch office, in Mannheim, will be closed in March. This means that the JRSO, formed with Allied approval by the major Jewish world organizations so as to recover all heirless Jewish assets, and incorporated in New York, has concluded the bulk of its activities in the American Zone. Cases still pending are not expected to yield revenue in excess of $250,000.
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