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Austria Resumes Talks Today with Jewish Leaders on Restitution

June 1, 1954
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The question of overhauling Austrian individual restitution legislation to remove discriminatory provisions injurious to victims of the Nazis will be the first point discussed here tomorrow when the Austro-Jewish talks on the Jewish demands for restitution get under way after a deadlock which began early last Summer.

After this point, the Austrian Government representatives and negotiators for the Jewish Claims Committee will discuss legislative measures designed to compensate individual Jews for destroyed apartments, homes and furniture and for confiscation of savings, and to compensate communities for destruction or seizure of synagogues, cemeteries and other communal property. The final point will be the negotiation of a lump sum settlement of claims for heirless Jewish property, the most difficult single problem before the negotiators.

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