Ukrainian Bar Association for Foreign Affairs - Ostarbeiters

[index.html] The payment of compensations to the victims of forced/slave labourers pursuant to the German Legislation has finally started. Ukrainian Bar Association for Foreign Affairs took active part in accelerating the payments to the thousands of Ukrainians whose lives had been ruined by fascism. For five years UKRINIURKOLEGUIA was representing hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian Ostarbeiters at the same time actively participating in all stages of negotiation process as to forced and slave labour compensations and representing the interests of numerous claimants at its own expense. Due to the efforts of UKRINIURKOLEGUIA the issue of compensation payments was given more complete and objective coverage in mass media, which made for solving legislative problems in Austria and Germany. Persistent cooperation with numerous archives enabled thousands of applicants, forced and slave labourers, ghetto survivors and their relatives prove their eligibility to compensations. Having completely undertaken the processing of thousands of applications UKRINIURKOLEGUIA managed to create a vast data base to be further implemented by its foreign partners: German lawyer Peter-Jochen Kruse and American lawyers Peter Rabinovich and Myroslaw Smorodsky, whose devoted efforts on the way to the final result shall not be questioned. With the participation of UKRINIURKOLEGUIA's lawyers Peter-Jochen Kruse, Peter Rabinovich and Myroslaw Smorodsky filed numerous suits to respectfully German and US courts, all doing their best that thousands of Ukrainian nationals who sustained suffers of the slave labour might receive their due at least at the twilight of their life. Today there are over 600,000 former Ostarbeiters living in Ukraine. According to intergovernmental Agreement their legal needs are accommodated via Ukrainian National Foundation "Understanding and Reconciliation" Ukrainian National Foundation "Understanding and Reconciliation" 15 Frunze Street 01080, Kyiv, Ukraine Telephone/fax +044/ 462 50 06 e-mail: chpcserv@unf.kiev.ua web site: www.unf.kiev.ua/ Those nationals, who reside outside the countries participating in the Negotiations (Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Israel) are welcome to apply to International Organisation for Migration. International Organisation for Migration German Forced Labour Compensation Programme 826 Government Avenue, Arcadia, P. O. Box 9305, Pretoria 0001 South Africa Telephone +27 12 342 13 84, Fax +27 12 342 09 32, e-mail: sropretoria@iom. int web site: www.compensation-for-forced-labour.org The cases of Jewish victims of Nazism are considered by Claims Conference. Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany 15 East Street, New York, NY 10010, USA web site: www.claimscon © 2001 design WizArt , Julia Klimentovska