[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 26, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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[Congressional Record: January 26, 1994]
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                               HOLOCAUST

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                          HON. HENRY A. WAXMAN

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, January 26, 1993

  Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in the hopes of righting a 
wrong that has denied a victim of the Nazis the ability to put the 
nightmare of the Holocaust behind him.
  Hugo Princz and his family, all American citizens living in Europe 
when World War II began, were arrested by the Nazis in 1942 and 
deported to concentration camps where the rest of his family died.
  Since the 1950's, when the German Government began to provide 
reparation payments for the survivors of the Nazi terror, Mr. Princz 
has been applying for what he is entitled to, but to no avail. Because 
he was an American citizen and not seen as ``stateless'' or a 
``refugee,'' Mr. Princz did not qualify for reparations.
  It is time that this injustice is corrected. Mr. Princz endured the 
same horrible atrocities as all of the other innocent victims of the 
Holocaust, and deserves to have his suffering acknowledged by the 
German Government.
  I urge my colleagues to support House Resolution 323, and help Hugo 
Princz end his 40-year struggle and close the book on this horrible 
chapter of his life.

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