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October 24, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-14.htm

Restitution: The Second Round - An Interview with Israel Singer

(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Manfred Gerstenfeld - As secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), Israel Singer's perseverance led to the Holocaust restitution process of the mid-1990s, a process of particular importance to Jewish survivors in Eastern European who had not received any such assistance up to that time. Singer summarizes: "Eight billion dollars in restitution payments were retrieved. Yet I think other achievements are even more important. Fifteen million documents were declassified. They provided important information on many issues, condemning the Vatican, Germany, Switzerland and many others. They enhanced the documentation about insurance companies. They also told family histories, giving a picture of what murdered families looked like, and their names."

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