Saul Kagan, Fighter for Nazi Restitution, z”l
Saul Kagan, who founded the group that secured tens of billions of dollars in Holocaust restitution money from Germany’s postwar government, passed away on Shabbos. He was 91.
Kagan, who set up the framework for the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany in 1952, was mourned by the World Jewish Congress as “the guiding spirit and wise, strategic force throughout over 60 years of successful negotiations that helped ease the physical plight of survivors across the globe.”
Born in Vilnius, Kagan fled to New York in 1940. He played a key role in the 1952 Luxembourg Agreements, in which Israel, Germany and the newly established Claims Conference agreed to a protocol for reparations.
“We somehow had the feeling that we were not alone in this room,” Kagan recalled. “Somehow we felt that the spirits of those who couldn’t be there were there with us.”
Kagan is survived by his wife, Eleanor, and his daughter, Julia.
This article appeared in print on page 6 of edition of Hamodia.
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