On the recordJanuary 26, 1994
I would like to thank Chairman Hamilton and the House Foreign Affairs Committee for taking action today on House Resolution 323. Adoption of this resolution could go a long way to right a wrong that has been outstanding for more than 40 years. I introduced the resolution on behalf of one of my constituents, Mr. Hugo Princz of Highland Park, NJ. Mr. Princz and his family were American citizens living in Europe at the outbreak of World War II. In 1942, his family was arrested by the Nazis. Because they were Jewish, the Nazi regime refused to allow the Princzs' to return to the United States. The Princz family was separated and Hugo's parents and sisters were sent to the Treblinka death camp where they were killed. Hugo and his brothers were sent to Auchwitz as slave laborers. His brothers died at Auchwitz, and at the end of the war, as the Nazis tried to cover up evidence of the camps, Hugo was sent by train for extermination. Hugo Princz's life was saved when his death train was intercepted by U.S. forces.
