March 28



GERMANY:

Holocaust Compensation Payment Deadline


The following is a summary of an Announcement for certain persons who
made an application to the Claims Conference's Program for Former Slave
and Forced Laborers. Additional information can be found at
http://www.claimscon.org .


The last day that payments from the German Foundation, "Remembrance,
Responsibility, and the Future," may be made to eligible Holocaust
survivors and heirs of survivors, according to the German Foundation law,
is September 30, 2006.

No new applications for payments from the German Foundation can be made.
Only claims filed before the deadline that remain open are being
processed.

You must contact the Claims Conference if you are a Holocaust survivor, or
heir of a survivor, who submitted a timely application to the Program for
Former Slave and Forced Laborers and:


-- have been approved for payment, but have not received the full
payment, OR
-- have not received notification about the status of the claim, OR
-- have received an Heir Application Packet and have not yet returned
the
required forms.

If a person eligible for payment dies, heirs of the deceased person must
notify the Claims Conference within six months of the death of the
eligible person or by September 30, 2006, whichever is sooner, in order to
receive payment.

All time limits related to appeals and to heirs that have not expired as
of September 30, 2006, terminate on that date.

All communications to the Claims Conference described above (other than as
regards appeals or heir deadline notification) must be postmarked by May
15, 2006 and must arrive at the Claims Conference no later than June 1,
2006.

These deadlines also apply to the German Foundation Fund for Medical
Experiments and Other Personal Injuries.

The US Court supervising the Swiss Banks Settlement Slave Labor Class I
has adopted the administrative deadlines of the German Foundation. Please
note: In any case where the result of a timely appeal for a payment was
negative but documentary proof of eligibility was located by the applicant
subsequent to the appeal decision, it may become possible to review the
earlier decision. Applicants must contact the Claims Conference Appeals
Office in communication postmarked by May 15, 2006 and that communication
must arrive at the Claims Conference Appeals Office no later than June 1,
2006. Please keep written proof of the date of mailing, fax or email
communication.


NO NEW APPLICATIONS CAN BE MADE.


For more information:
http://www.claimscon.org

For residents of Israel: For residents of Europe: Rest of the world:
Claims Conference Claims Conference Claims Conference
18 Gruzenberg Street Sophienstrasse 44 15 East 26 Street
P.O.B. 29254 60487 Frankfurt Room 906
65251 Tel Aviv Germany New York, NY 10010
Tel: 03-519-4401 Tel.: + 49-69-170 886 47 USA
Fax: 03-516-9058 Fax: +49-69-170 886 49 Tel: +1-646-536-9100






LITHUANIA:

Crimes against Jews, but too old for jail


A man of 85 was yesterday convicted of crimes against Jews during the
Second World War - but no jail sentence was handed down, as the Lithuanian
judge said he was too old and no longer represented a threat to society.

The case of Algimantas Dailide, who said he was only a clerk for the
Nazi-backed secret police, the Saugumas, has revived memories of the
genocide in Lithuania that all but wiped out the country's more than
200,000 Jews.

The judge found him guilty of seizing the property of Jews and arresting
12 of them who were fleeing the Vilnius ghetto. However, he rejected the
prosecutor's demand for a five-year jail term.

There were no witnesses against Dailide, who admitted volunteering for the
Saugumas. He now lives in Germany and went voluntarily to Vilnius for the
trial, which Jewish groups called a milestone.

Some have accused Lithuania of dragging its heels over prosecuting war
criminals. Two other men have been charged with war crimes but were ruled
too old or too ill for their cases to be continued or to be punished.

Only 6 per cent of Lithuania's Jews are estimated to have survived the
war. About 55,000 died in Vilnius, which was once called the "Jerusalem of
the North".

(source: The Scotsman)





USA//PENNSYLVANIA:

Holocaust Remembrance Film Paper Clips Set for Allen Theatre


To commemorate the Holocaust, some local religious organizations are
joining together for a free screening of the award-winning documentary
Paper Clips. The film will be shown at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 25, at
the Allen Theatre. After the screening, there will be a brief
candle-lighting ceremony and a discussion of the documentary facilitated
by local religious leaders.

The event is being coordinated by members of Evangelical Theology Seminary
in Myerstown; Lebanon Valley College; Congregation Beth Israel in Lebanon;
and the Allen Theatre. For further information, contact Patricia Books at
Congregation Beth Israel, 717-273-2669.

Paper Clips is the moving story of students in the town of Whitwell,
Tenn., who decided to collect one paper clip for each individual
exterminated by the Nazis The 1,600 citizens of this rural Tennessee
community are almost exclusively white and Christian. The town was not
accustomed to cultural diversity. But in 1998, Linda Hooper, principal at
Whitwell Middle School, inspired the project to help students learn about
the world beyond their insulated valley.

The students amassed 11 million paper clips, and the experience not only
changed their lives, but the lives of their teachers, their families, and
the entire town. By the end of the project, students were able to house
the paper clips in a donated World War II railcar so they would always
have a permanent tribute to the millions who were lost. And they had a new
goal: to open the eyes and hearts of people around the world.

A highlight of the film is the moving testimony of four Holocaust
survivors from New York, who visit Whitwell in response to the Paper Clips
Project. Seen through the anguished eyes of a quartet of Holocaust
survivors, the magnitude of the Whitwell project is clear to the students.
The G-rated film is 87 minutes long.

(source: Lebanon Valley College)