On the recordJanuary 26, 1994
today the House of Representatives has the opportunity to go on the record in support of righting an historic wrong. The tragedy of the Holocaust is well known. Not so well known are the individual stories that make up the larger horror. The tragedy that surrounds Hugo Princz is one of those unknown stories. Mr. Princz is an American citizen who survived the camps of Auschwitz and Dachau, though his wife and children did not. In 1942, Mr. Princz and his family were U.S. citizens living in Europe. He and his family were arrested by the Nazis who ignored their valid U.S. passports on the grounds that they were Jews. Princz and his family were deported to concentration camps where all but Princz were exterminated. Following the liberation, Hugo Princz, as an American, was sent to a U.S. military hospital and did not go through a displaced persons camp. Because Princz bypassed the DP camp, he has been refused German reparations for over 40 years. It is wrong that the German Government has not paid reparations and I thank my colleagues for bringing this issue to the attention of the House.
