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Nahum Goldmann, left, founding President of the Claims Conference, and Saul Kagan, right,
its Executive Director, at a 1958 meeting in London.

Saul Kagan

Saul Kagan was the architect of Holocaust compensation and restitution. He made it his life’s calling to attain a small measure of justice for those Jews who had managed to survive the Shoah, and in so doing, became the backbone of an unparalleled historic endeavor.

Saul Kagan spent his entire adult life working tirelessly for the rights of Holocaust victims. He single-mindedly pursued the goal of obtaining a small measure of justice for those who suffered without measure. Mr. Kagan’s efforts resulted in the unparalleled historic endeavor of compensation and restitution for Holocaust victims from Germany, Austria and other entities.

He did not wait for history to present opportunities; he made history. There are survivors the world over who did never and will never know the name of Saul Kagan, but his work helped them live out their lives with an added measure of dignity.

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