Newfield, NJ – Grandmother Part Of Compsantion To Be Paid.

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    Newfield, NJ – As we reported ONE of the most painful chapters in the history of Holocaust compensation was closed on Friday when KarstadtQuelle, Germany’s biggest department store chain, agreed to pay E88 million ($117 million) to the American descendants of the Jewish Wertheim family, which lost its retail empire to the Nazis in 1938.

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    New Jersey grandmother and descendant of the Wertheim family Barbara Principe, who originally filed the claim against KarstadtQuelle, said the German company had shown “character and reason” in settling.
    Ms Principe and her family were unaware of their claim until a researcher discovered the link in the early 1990s.

    Her father Guenther Wertheim fled Germany shortly before World War II to become a chicken farmer on the US east coast. He did not discuss his past with his daughter, according to the Jewish Claims Conference, which struck the settlement for the Wertheims. [TheAustralian]


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