Deadline extended for Holocaust claimants

BOSTON – The mid-August deadline for filing applications for forced-labor compensation under the German law creating the foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future,” has been extended until Dec. 31.

The law, which came into force in Germany last August, provides for payment to claimants who were held in a concentration camp or in a similar confinement and who were subjected to forced labor, and those who were deported from their native country into the German Reich or into an area under German occupation and were subjected to forced labor.

For details of the slave labor compensation program, visit the Web site of the German Embassy, at www.germanyinfo.org/newcontents/cls/cls 6c.html.

Jewish claimants residing in the United States who have not yet filed their applications should immediately contact the Claims Conference in New York City at (800) 697-6064. All other claimants should contact the International Office for Migrations in Washington at (866) 443-5187.

For other questions, call the German Consulate General in Boston at (617) 536-4414 or email the consulate at boston@germanconsulate.org.