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May 23, 1997 - Image 39

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1997-05-23

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COMPENSATION page 3

Clockwise from top:
Nathan Roth: Old
memories.

Martin Lowenberg
learned how to apply
for compensation.

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after being forced from his
Czechoslovakian home at age
19.
"This kind of meeting chums
up a lot of things," he said.
"When you look around at all
the people, it comes back at you.
You think in disbelief: Did this
PP really happen to me?"
Martin Lowenberg of South-
field, who was rejected in pre-
vious applications to the Claims 18 survivors stepped forward to
Conference, learned Sunday become part of the Shoah pro-
that he might be eligible for ject.
compensation.
"I thought it was a terrific
success for the entire communi-
ty," said Ms. Victor. "The s
urvivors received information,
Getting
both for the good and for
answers to
the bad. They got some real
answers. The feedback we re-
questions.
ceived from the survivors was
that it was a valuable after-
noon."
Mr. Schneider, of the Claims
Mr. Lowenberg's leg was in- Conference, did an effective job
jured during the Holocaust. His explaining the criteria to receive
greatest injury, however, was funds. They included a defini-
the loss of his entire family at tion of the level of suffering, the
Auschwitz.
amount of previous compensa-
Mr. Marks told the audience, tion, and a person's current in-
"I do this because the survivors come.
need a voice. There is just too
For instance, to qualify for com-
much information out there.
pensation a survivor had to spend
"I was pleased because many 18 months in a ghetto or to have
survivors could have benefited spent 18 months in hiding.
from the afternoon. Basic infor-
"I think that most people
mation was given for new funds received some answers or at
and for additional funds."
least an understanding of what
Ms. Victor said that besides was happening," said Erna Gor-
information on compensation, man, a survivor who was hidden
at least 25 survivors who as a child in a Ukrainian
had not seen one another in farmer's barn. "It's been a mys-
decades were reunited in the tery to some. The crowd was fab-
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