United_Restitution_Organization

United Restitution Organization

United Restitution Organization

Legal aid service for victims of Nazi persecution

The United Restitution Organization (URO) was established in 1948 as a legal aid service to assist victims of Nazi persecution living outside Germany in making restitution and indemnification claims against Germany and Austria. The URO has served over 250,000 clients.[1] It helped Jews, Roma, and other victims of Nazi crimes. At its most expansive, the URO maintained 29 offices in 15 countries around the world.[2] British barrister Norman Bentwich was the chairman of the URO board from 1948 until his death in 1971, and Kurt May, a German-born lawyer who had fled the Nazis in 1934 after he defended a leading Social Democrat wrongly accused of being a Communist, served as its director from the early 1950s until 1990.

References

  1. [1]
    Bentwich, Norman (2008), "UNITED RESTITUTION ORGANIZATION (URO)", Jewish Virtual Library, retrieved 2013-07-25
  2. [2]
    "United Restitution Organization." Encyclopedic Dictionary of Judaica. Wigoder, Geoffrey, ed. New York; Paris: Leon Amiel, 1974. p. 609.
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