A number of categories of victims of Nazi persecution, who failed to file restitution claims with West German authorities by an earlier deadline, have until May 23, 1966 to file such claims, it was announced here today by the United Restitution Organization. The earlier deadline was April 1, 1959.
Persons eligible for such payments, which will be made from a special fund set up by West Germany, include those whose jewelry and valuables were confiscated by the Nazis during the Second World War in concentration camps, labor camps, ghettos and other places in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, the Baltic states, Russia, the Ukraine, Bohemia, Moravia, parts of Czechoslovakia, Greece, the Serbian part of Yugoslavia and in Italy after September 8, 1943, as well as in the Mauthausen and Natz-weiler concentration camps in Germany proper. Claims may also be filed, the URO noted, for furniture and household goods confiscated by the Nazis in France, Belgium and Holland from 1942 through 1944.
If the owner of the confiscated property is deceased, payment may be claimed by the surviving spouse and children only. Claimants for this restitution may either contact organizations or lawyers who handle general indemnification or restitution claims, or file directly with the Special Buildings and Property Administration of the Berlin Finance Office at Fasanenstrasse 87, Berlin, 12, West Germany.
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