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News For Survivors

Michigan tax-exempt bill progresses; German
settlement refused; vice consuls advise caution.

urged about 150 local Holocaust sur-
vivors attending an informal meeting
last week not to hire lawyers to help
I t was good news; bad news and
get compensation for Swiss and
nothing new last week for
Austrian bank settlements, slave labor
Holocaust survivors living in
and insurance company compensation
Michigan. -
unless they have documents that prove
• The good news: A Michigan bill
their claims.
exempting Holocaust reparations and
Klaus Mueller and Anja Gansler,
returned assets from state taxes passed
vice consuls of
a House Tax Policy
Germany, and Greg
Above: Shown at a
Committee as well as the
Schneider, assistant
recent meeting for
Full House last week.
executive vice presi-
Holocaust survivors are
"The members of this
dent of the
Greg Schneider, Conference
committee have demon-
Conference on Jewish
on Jewish Material Claims
strated their concern for
Material Claims
Against Germany; Rachel
people who have suffered
Against
Germany, met
Yoskowitz, Jewish Family
through one of the great
Service; and Klaus Mueller, with survivors in Oak
tragedies in human histo-
Park at the Jimmy
vice consul of Germany.
ry," said state Rep. Marc
Morris Prentis
Shulman (R-West
Building of the Jewish
Bloomfield), the bill's sponsor. "There
Community Center of Metropolitan
are a few more steps for us to go
Detroit. The trio agreed that lawyers,
through, but my hope is this bill will
especially those charging fees before
soon become law.
settlements are distributed, are "a
The bill now goes to the Senate. If
waste of time."
passed there, Michigan will join New
They said the German consulate
Jersey and Pennsylvania as the only
and the Jewish Family Service agency
states having such legislation.
in Detroit are adequately able to assist
• The bad news: Representatives of
survivors in completing the necessary
those who worked as Nazi-era slaves
applications.
and forced laborers turned down a
The deadline to opt out of the
$3.3 million settlement with the
$1.25 billion Swiss bank settlement
responsible German companies.
and sue separately is Friday, Oct. 22;
Lawyers said the amount given
the deadline for the $40 million
should be closer to $20 billion.
Austrian bank settlement is Monday,
• Nothing new: Three experts
Oct. 18. I J

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