(JTA) — Roman Kent, a Lodz Ghetto survivor who would negotiate with the postwar German government for billions of dollars in compensation for Jewish Holocaust survivors, died Friday at his home in New York City. He was 92.
Kent, who immigrated to the United States in 1946, was a longtime board member of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, or Claims Conference, where he served variously as treasurer, co-chair of its negotiating committee and special adviser to its president.
In those roles, said Greg Schneider, executive vice president of the Claims Conference, Kent negotiated billions of dollars in pensions and compensation for Jewish survivors from the German government and championed survivor interests with insurance companies, German industry and Eastern European governments.
Just last year, Kent recorded a video as part of a campaign to demand that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg remove Holocaust denial content from his entire social media network.
To recap: "Kent and his brother Leon were liberated by the U.S. Army in 1945 while on a death march to Dachau. "
Lets examine the links statements, they WERE in a death camp, in fact, several as it turned out: "Roman Kniker survived its ghetto (Lods) and several camps including Merzbachtal, Dornau, Flossenburg and Auschwitz." ...wait, but the Germans wanted them to live to go to another camp (which by all accounts was NOT a "death camp" but a "work camp"...because...?
What's that again? They were in 4 "death camps", but the normally efficient Germans were unable to kill them in the death camps so they decided to march them to a "Work Camp" (Dachau) instead. I don't understand that......anyone help out here.
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To recap: "Kent and his brother Leon were liberated by the U.S. Army in 1945 while on a death march to Dachau. "
Lets examine the links statements, they WERE in a death camp, in fact, several as it turned out: "Roman Kniker survived its ghetto (Lods) and several camps including Merzbachtal, Dornau, Flossenburg and Auschwitz." ...wait, but the Germans wanted them to live to go to another camp (which by all accounts was NOT a "death camp" but a "work camp"...because...?
What's that again? They were in 4 "death camps", but the normally efficient Germans were unable to kill them in the death camps so they decided to march them to a "Work Camp" (Dachau) instead. I don't understand that......anyone help out here.