A decision aimed at facilitating the issuance of death certificates for missing persons has been made by the United Nations Economic and Social Council’s ad hoc committee, set up to consider a draft convention on such death certificates.
The committee included in its draft a provision to empower not only the courts at the missing person’s last permanent home, but the courts at the last temporary residence, such as concentration camps, to issue such certificates. If the certificate is requested by a close relative of the missing person, a court at the latter’s place of residence shall be entitled to issue the document.
The Jewish viewpoint was outlined before the committee by Dr. F.R. Bienenfeld of the World Jewish Congress and by M. Eisenberg of the American Jewish Committee, acting in behalf of the Consultative Council of Jewish Organizations. The ad hoc committee is composed of representatives of Brazil, Denmark, France, Poland, the United States and the Soviet Union. The presiding officer is the Lebanese Minister to Switzerland.
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