United Restitution Organization (URO)

The file contains ten circulars (“Rundschreiben”) by the United Restitution Organization (Frankfurt) from January and February 1964. The circulars include the following issues: no. 1198, no. 1197, no. 1196, no. 1195, no. 1194, no. 1193, no. 1192, no. 1188, no. 1186, and no. 1184. They mainly deal with recent court judgements on questions of restitution, especially regarding juridical regulations and procedures in Austria, professional damages following Nazi persecution, information regarding the subsistence level in Israel, and the definition and the condition of people who were expelled (“Vertriebene”). The topics include: „Vertriebeneneigenschaft“, „Österreichisches Opferfürsorgegesetz“, „Rücknahme des Antrags auf Entschädigung“, „Nachschieben von Ansprüchen“, „Vertriebeneneigenschaft“, „Existenzminimum in Israel“, „Berufsschaden“, „Formulierung der Freizeichnungsklausel“, „Fiktivvertriebene“.