Foreign Ministry officials confirmed today a report that a despondent 42-year-old Jewish survivor of the Auschwitz death camp tried to hang himself in a Ministry washroom last week.
Georg Loewy tried to hang himself with his necktie but the attempt was halted by officials. He gave as his reason a charge that Bonn officials had refused to help him with a reparations claim. He said the officials told him to take his claim to the Hamburg Senate and that he was convinced that he would receive nothing.
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