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New York (JTA) — The World the Federal Republic that they
Jewish Congress has vowed to dare to do so," the statement said.
Last year, Gerald Fleming, a
fight any efforts to compensate
the heirs to the company that retired lecturer in German at the
made the crematoriums used by University of Surrey, England,
discovered in Russian archives
the Nazis.
Heirs to the J.A. Topf and Sons the records of the 1946 Red Army
company have filed for restitu- interrogations of employees of
tion for the factory site and oth- J.A. Topf and Sons.
Testimony from a senior engi-
er assets, which were seized by
the communists after World War neer said the company's design
II. The heirs made their claim un- innovation, to use the fat ofburn-
der the terms of legislation en- ing corpses as fuel to operate the
acted when Germany was furnaces, "could not yet be ap-
proved" for a patent because it
reunified in October 1990.
"We are calling for the German was classified by the Third Reich
government to block any trans- as a state secret.
In a July 1993 letter to the ed-
fer of assets to the heirs. If that
fails, we intend to take legal ac- itor of the New York Times, Eli
tion," said Elan Steinberg, the
- WJC executive director.
The Topf family heirs have
asked for the factory site and oth-
er assets or financial compensa-
tion for the property, which has
been valued at more than $2 mil-
lion.
`That would be the money off
the burnt bodies of Auschwitz
and the other crematoria," said
Mr. Steinberg.
The factory site, which is lo-
cated in the eastern industrial
city of Erfurt, was seized by the
Soviets in 1945. Under current
German law, land confiscated be- Rosenbaum, now acting director
tween 1945 and 1949 by com- of the U.S. Justice Department's
munist authorities in what would Office of Special Investigations,
later become East Germany, can- wrote that "Topf did eventually
receive the patent," No. 861,731.
not be returned.
It was issued by the West Ger-
This does not apply, however,
man
Patent Office to the Topf
to private assets such as money,
firm
in Wiesbaden on Jan. 3,
jewelry or private homes, for
1953,
Mr. Rosenbaum wrote.
which restitution can be sought.
He
added that the official
Last month, a regional Ger-
patent
document's title is
man government office said the
"Process
and Apparatus for In-
Topf heirs would not get back the
cineration
of Carcasses, Cadav-
factory site, but their claims for
ers
and
Parts
Thereof."
equivalent assets were still being
determined.
The announcement inflamed
40k,
not only Jewish groups but oth-
atik
er Germans.
The Social Democratic Party
issued a statement calling any
consideration of reparations in
this case "awful and shameless.
"The demand of the heirs of
J.A. Topf and Sons to obtain repa- Ann Arbor's Colossal Computer
rations in the amount of $2 mil- Sale will be held Oct. 2 from 9:30
lion for expropriated land that a.m. to 4 p.m. at Washtenaw
belonged to the firm in the Ger- Community College's Morris
man Democratic Republic can Lawrence Building, East Huron
hardly be surpassed by shame- River Drive, Ann Arbor.
Hundreds of new and used
lessness. The firm J.S. Topf and
pieces
of computer equipment
Sons manufactured crematori-
ums for concentration camps dur- and software items will be avail-
ing the Nazi period," the party able from Michigan, Ohio and Illi-
nois vendors. Donated used
said in a statement.
"The fact that they claim repa- equipment also will be up for sale,
rations does not give witness sole- a benefit for the Jewish Commu-
ly for the heirs of this nity Center.
There is a charge. For infor-
concentration camp (manufac-
turing) company. It is evidence of mation, call the Washtenaw JCC,
the general political climate in (313) 971-0990.

The Social
Democratic Party
issued a statement
calling any
consideration of
reparations in this
case awful and
shameless.

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