Correspondence with United Restitution Organization (URO) - Office Munich
Extent and Medium
84 letters
Creator(s)
- United Restitution Organization
Biographical History
Established in 1948 the United Restitution Organisation (URO) was an international organisation under private law. Its remit was to provide legal aid service for the restitution claims of victims of the Nazi persecution living outside Germany.
Scope and Content
Beside the exchange of bibliographic information and published material the correspondence centres on restitution related enquiries by URO Munich on individuals as well as on certain aspects of the Nazi persecution and crimes. The latter includes among others queries on medical experiments in concentration camps, especially Mauthausen and Vapniarka (1958-60) or forced abortions in (Lithuanian) ghettos (1959). A further subject are criminal charges concentration camp survivor Josef Ackermann had pressed against right-wing politicians and journalists for libeling him and other former Buchenwald inmates (1958/ 60).
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People
- Ackermann, Josef
Subjects
- War crimes
- Survivors
- Restitution
- Racial persecution, Jews
- Jewish organisations
- Ghettos
- Concentration camps
Places
- West Germany [1949-1990]
- Third Reich [1933-1945]
- Munich