A suit of a former Jewish slave laborer at an I.G. Farben plant attached to the Auschwitz death camp against the company for back wages and damages has concluded here with the winding up of arguments by attorneys for both sides. The verdict is to be announced by the court June 10.
The suit, a test case, was brought by Norbert Wollheim, one-time camp inmate and post-war leader of German Jews in the British zone, who now lives in New York. Mr. Wollheim had negotiated with the I.G. Farben Company for $2,000 in back pay and damages but was turned down. The case came to court last October. If Mr. Wollheim’s suit is successful some 1,600 surviving slave laborers of the same plant are expected to sue Farben.
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