VICTIMS OF NAZI EXPERIMENTS RECEIVE ADDITIONAL PAYMENT

BUCURESTI - 1 aprilie 2005

Comunicat tip General in Social

IOM pays an extra EUR 2,450 to non-Jewish survivors of medical experiments and other compensable personal injuries.

As one of the partner organizations of the German Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future”, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has started making additional payments to 1,320 claimants who suffered personal injury under the Nazi regime (category 1).

Each eligible victim who is still alive will receive an extra payment of EUR 2,450.

Seven hundred and fourteen of the 1,320 claimants were subjected to Nazi medical experiments, 527 were as children separated from their parents and held in a home for children of slave or forced labourers, and 79 claimants are parents whose children died in such children’s homes.

Legal successors/heirs are not entitled to receive the extra payment.

Earlier this year, the German Foundation’s Board of Trustees had decided that part of the interest accrued on the EUR 5.12 billion fund should be used to make a final additional payment to personal injury victims who are still alive.

So far, all eligible victims of “other personal injury” have received EUR 4,243 each. With the final additional payment, each surviving victim will receive a total of EUR 6,693 as a gesture of acknowledgement of the injustice committed by the Nazi regime and the human suffering it caused.

The atrocious experiments carried out by Nazi doctors in numerous concentration camps had no medical merit or justification and many victims did not survive the barbaric and extremely painful procedures. “IOM and the German Foundation recognize that no amount of money can possibly compensate these victims for their suffering,” Norbert Wühler, the Director of IOM’s Claims Programmes, emphasizes. “But, we are very pleased that IOM is now able to pay a considerably higher amount than initially calculated to persons who suffered from pseudo-medical experiments or certain other Nazi atrocities.”

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As a partner organization of the German Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future”, IOM is in charge of processing claims of former slave and forced labourers and certain other Nazi victims and of making financial compensation available to them.

The German law establishing the Foundation, the German Foundation Act, entered into force on 12 August 2000 and the German industry and German Government provided approximately EUR 2.56 billion each to the fund. IOM is responsible for non-Jewish claimants living in the so-called “rest of the world”, i.e., anywhere except for the Czech Republic, Poland and the republics of the former Soviet Union.

The filing deadline for submission of claims under this programme expired on 31 December 2001 and IOM is not accepting any more claims.

According to the German Foundation Act, any funds that the seven partner organizations have not been able to pay out by the end of September 2006 must be returned to the German Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future”. The programme will then be closed.

Marie-Agnes Heine, Public Information Officer
IOM/German Forced Labour Compensation Programme,
P.O. Box 71, CH-1211 Geneva, Tel: +41-22-5928220, Fax: +41-22-7986150
mheine@iom.int

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