A delegation of the International Auschwitz Committee, representing former inmates of the Nazi death camp, conferred today with representatives of IG Farben, the German chemical trust, and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims on the question of adding claimants to the number estimated to share in a slave labor settlement agreed between IG Farben and the Claims Conference.
The provisional settlement approved by these two parties would pay some $7,000,000 to surviving slave laborers at the synthetic rubber plant operated by I. G. Farben with Auschwitz inmates. It is the belief of observers here that if too many new claimants enter the picture at this late date, the German company will not ratify the pact. However, the International Auschwitz Committee, which convened its meeting here to discuss this problem, has many more claims to add. The Polish delegation alone offers 2,320 new names.
Meanwhile, an urn containing human ashes gathered from ditches where the Nazis dumped the overflow from their crematoria at the Auschwitz camp was buried today in the local Jewish cemetery. The urn had been brought to the conference of the Auschwitz Committee by the Polish delegation.
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