On the recordJanuary 26, 1994
I rise in support of House Resolution 323 which seeks to correct a wrong that has existed for far too long. Hugo Princz is a man who has suffered the tragedy of a lifetime. As Jewish Americans living in Czechoslovakia, he and his family were arrested and forced to endure the unspeakable horror of the Holocaust. He alone survived as a slave laborer in Auschwitz and Dachau. After being liberated by American soldiers, Hugo Princz returned to the United States. He filed for war reparations and found that as an American citizen he did not meet the German criteria of having been displaced. I can think of no more terrible displacement than to lose one's family in the Holocaust. This resolution calls upon President Clinton and Secretary Christopher to press the German Government to ensure that Hugo Princz receives the reparations to which he is entitled. The Senate has already passed a companion resolution. Now more than 40 years later, let us correct this injustice.
