REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA
GENERAL SETTLEMENT FUND FOR
VICTIMS OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM

Allgemeiner Entschadigungsfonds fiir Opfer des Nationalsozialismus

The Republic of Austria has established a General
Settlement Fund endowed with USD 210 million, which
will be administered by the National Fund of the Repub-
lic of Austria. The purpose of the Fund is to acknowl-

edge, through voluntary payments, the moral responsibility
for losses and damages inflicted upon Jewish citizens and
other victims of National Socialism as a result of or in
connection with the National Socialist regime.

•

Eligibility: Persons and associations who/which were

persecuted by the National Socialist regime or who left the
country to escape such persecution and who suffered
losses or damages as a result of or in connection with
events having occurred on the territory of the present-day
Republic of Austria during the National Socialist era are
eligible to file an application. Heirs of such persons and
legal successors of defunct associations are also eligible.

AINIAMINAWAW*10/

HAV
F NATIONAL SOCIALISM?

CATEGORIES OF PROPERTY: Applications for

compensation of losses or damages may be filed in
the following categories:
• liquidated businesses, including licenses and other
business assets
• real property
■ bank accounts, stocks, bonds and mortgages
• movable property unless such property losses are
covered by the payments for apartment and small
business leases, household property and personal
valuables and effects
• insurance policies

• occupational or educational losses
• any other claims for losses or damages unless those
claims are already covered by the Austrian Reconcili-
ation Fund for former slave and forced labourers or by
in rem restitution

1N REM RESTITUTION: Applications for in rem

,

restitution of real estate (land) and buildings (in case of
Jewish organizations also tangible movable property)
which were owned by the Federal Government or the
City of Vienna on January 17, 2001, may be filed with
an Arbitration Panel established with the Fund.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: You may file applications in writing until May 27, 2003.

For additional information and application forms please contact the.General Settlement Fund at:
ALLGEMEINER ENTSCHADIGUNGSFONDS FUR OPFER DES NATIONALSOZIALISMUS
Parlament - 1017 Wien, Osterreich
Telephone: +43 /1/408 12 63
wwvv.nationalfonds.org
Fax: +43/1/310 00 88

VOW

•

ADDITIONAL SOCIAL BENERTS: Upon achievement of legal closure (dismissal of all US class-actions against Austria and/or
Austrian companies related to the National Socialist era) disbursement of "Pflegegeld" (nursing allowance) will be improved,
and the prerequisites for the preferential right to retroactively purchase pension rights, as well as for the entitlement to a
pension under the Victims Assistance Act ("Opferrente") will be eased. For further information please contact:

PENSIONS/"PFLEGEGELD":

Pensionsversicherungsanstalt der Angestellten, Friedrich-Hillegeist-StraRe 1, A-1021 Wien
or Pensionsversicherungsanstalt der Arbeiter, Rogauer Lande 3, A-1090 Wien
or Sozialversicherungsanstalt der gewerblichen Wirtschaft, Wiedner Hauptstrage 84-86, A-1053 Wien

"OPFERRENTEN":

2002

52

Amt der Wiener Landesregierung, MAl2 — Referat OpferfOrsorge, Schottenring 24, A-1010 Wien

