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File
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URO-TA-Pers-2952
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ID
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997013169199505171
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Title
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Kamenetz, Josef, residing in Tel Aviv, Israel, reparations file
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Main applicants and victims of persecution
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Kamenetz, Josef (Joseph), 1906-, URO applicant, victim
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Kamenetz, Rywka (Riwa), 1915-, relative, victim
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Kamenetz, Selig (Zelig), relative, victim
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Kamenetz, Jakob, relative, victim
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Years
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1960-1970
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Content
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Josef Kamenetz, residing in Tel Aviv, Israel, filed a claim for compensation for harm to health and profession due to Nazi persecution. Born in Memel, he grew up in Lithuania and attended a Hebrew gymnasium. Before the war, he worked in his father's sawmill and later co-owned it with his brother, Zelig. Following the Soviet occupation in 1939, he worked as an employee. From 1941 to 1944, Josef was imprisoned in the Schaulen (Šiauliai) ghetto, where his three-year-old child was taken from him and never seen again. During his imprisonment, he was held in a prison for six weeks, subjected to beatings which resulted in a broken nose, and forced into heavy labor at the Schaulen airfield and digging peat. He and his wife, Rywka Riwa, managed to escape during the ghetto's liquidation in 1944 and hid in an underground bunker in a forest until their liberation by the Soviets. His parents and four of his five siblings, including his brother Selig, were murdered during the Holocaust. After the war, he lived in Munich for four years, where he was hospitalized for six months due to a heart condition, and immigrated to Israel in 1950. As a result of the persecution, he suffered from severe health issues, for which he was awarded a pension and compensation for a 35% reduction in earning capacity. Based on a court settlement from February 11, 1965, Mr. Kamenetz was awarded a capital payment of DM 11,953 and a monthly pension starting from November 1, 1953, which was periodically increased. The United Restitution Organization (URO) offices in Tel Aviv (also known as MILTAM) and Munich handled the claim, which was also addressed to the Compensation Treuhand, GmbH.
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Additional biographic data on victims of persecution
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Kamenetz, Josef (Joseph), born 15.09.1906 in Klaipėda (Lithuania), former profession: merchant, sawmill and mill owner.
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Kamenetz, Selig (Zelig), former profession: sawmill owner.
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Other related individuals
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Kamenetz, Ilana, 1946–, relative
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Asam, German legislative
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Gäbel, URO employee
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Gronich, Arthur, URO employee
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Gruenbaum, H., URO employee
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Heitner, German legislative
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Knirsch, German legislative
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Kollmar, German legislative
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Münzing, German legislative
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Nath, URO employee
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Pick, F., URO employee
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Erdmann, Riedl v., URO employee
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Ritter, URO employee
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Selowsky, L. E., URO employee
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Sterling, David, witness
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Abramsohn, Aron, witness
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Additional notes
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Contains biography.
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Contains medical records.
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Metadata in this record was created by AI.
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