German Claims Processed at Slow Rate
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to The Jewish News
HARRY M. NAYER, prominent Detroit attorney, is sworn
into office as a member of the State Board of Law Examiners
by his former University of Michigan classmate, Circuit Judge
HORACE W. GILMORE.
iVayer Named to Five-Year Term
on State Board of Laiv Examiners
One of the most important
posts that can be granted to a
Michigan attorney — member-
ship on the State Board of Law
Examiners — was conferred
this week upon Harry M. Nayer,
of 19179 Manor.
The appointment was made
by Gov. G. Mennen Williams
upon the unanimous recommen-
dation of all eight justices of
the Michigan Supreme Court.
Nayer, a partner in the law
firm of Travis, Warren and
Nayer, was sworn into office
Monday by Circuit Court Judge
Horace W. Gilmore, who was a
law school classmate of Nayer
PARIS — The Conference of
Jewish Material Claims against
Germany listed figures to show
that less than one-fifth of claims
for compensation by individual
victims of the Nazi era had
been processed by the first of
this year.
Delegates at the conference
session here were told that of
2,674,328 claims which have
been filed, only 596,403 had
been processed as of Jan. 1.
The delegates also learned that
the West German Indemnifica-
tion Law expires on Dec. 31,
1962, and that at the present
pace the full program could
not be completed by that date.
The Claims Conference re-
corded its "deep concern" over
the slow pace at which the ad-
judication of claims were being
processed in West Germany,
and urged the West German
states, by whom the federal
law is being administered, to
speed the rate of settlement of
claims.
"A few of the states are keep-
ing to the schedule and will
cover their complete list before
the deadline," a conference
spokesman said. "The others
must do likewise."
The conference urged the
lagging West German states to
simplify the procedures and to
add additional personnel to en-
sure that many thousands "are
not cut off from the indemni-
fication due them and which
they desperately need."
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, who
presided, said that one of the
m a j or bottlenecks was the
processing of claims made for
compensation of permanent
physical and mental injury suf-
fered under Nazi persecution.
He added that many of the
at the University of Michigan
in 1942.
Nayer will begin his five-year
term as a member of the state
commission today.
The State Board of Law Ex-
aminers is the body which pre-
pares and gives examinations to
prospective lawyers, passes
upon them and makes recom-
mendations for admission to
the State Bar Association.
Nayer, whose appointment
was based on his knowledge of
all phases of the legal profes-
sion, is a member of Cong.
Shaarey Zedek and has been a
worker for the Allied Jewish
Campaign.
As an attorney, he has repre-
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Goldmann, president of the
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said this week that it is pre-
mature to judge what effect
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West German states were de- followed extended representa-
manding a volume of documen- tions by the conference, will
tation "which it is practically benefit an estimated 40,000
impossible to provide and which Jews who managed to leave
is definitely contrary to the Romania before October, 1953
spirit of the federal law which and filed compensation claims.
requires only that reasonable
As a result of German recog-
proof be given."
nition of the principle that these
It was announced that in re- people were entitled to corn-
sponse to representations made pensation, Dr. Nahum 'Gold-
by the Claims Conference, ar- in a n n, conference chairman,
rangements will be made for said, it is hoped that thousands
West German medical experts of claims that have remained
to be available in major over- dormant until this issue was
seas settlements of refugees to
resolved will now be speedily
expedite processing of their settled."
claims.
the same time, however,
To Provide Indemnification the At Conference
registered its
for Romanian Nazi Victims "deep concern" over the fact
PARIS, (JTA) — The West that "many thousands" of poten-
German government has agreed tial claimants from Romania
to extend its present indemni- have been ruled out as potential
fication laws to cover victims indemnification beneficiaries by
of Nazi persecution in the the German insistence on the
Romanian provinces of Buco- October 1, 1953, deadline for
vina, Transnistria and Bessara- filing. These thousands, the
bia who filed their claims prior Conference stated, were "not
to the legal cut-off date of Oct. fortunate enough to escape to
1, 1953, it was announced by the free world and file claims
the conference. before the legal expiration
The German agreement, which date."
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