NYC Council Members Mark Levine and Ben
Kallos on Monday announced on the steps of City Hall a resolution to
hold accountable companies who profited from the Holocaust and have not
paid restitution to Holocaust survivors and their families currently
living in the New York City area. The two sponsors of the resolution, to
be brought up at Tuesday’s City Council stated meeting, were joined by
Rep. Carolyn Maloney who passed similar legislation on a federal level.
The resolution calls upon the New York
State government to prohibit companies and their affiliates who profited
from the Holocaust and have not made reparations, from being awarded
government contracts.

“We are gathered here today – on the
Jewish calendar’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, to call for justice for
Holocaust survivors,” Mr. Levine, chairman of the NYC Jewish Caucus,
told reporters at a press conference outside City Hall. “We generally
respond to the Holocaust by looking at the past, by remembrance and
mourning those who were lost, but we also need to look at the present.”
Mr. Levine stated that the legislation
will benefit the many Holocaust survivors still alive among us – an
estimated 50,000 people in the New York City area. “Our obligation is to
make sure they have the resources to live out their final days in
dignity,” he said.
“We also want to make sure we achieve
for justice for them by extracting, in part, reparations from their
tormentors – be they foreign governments or individuals – and
corporations,” said Levine.
According to the resolution, Global
corporations like IBM, Bayer and Siemens should be held accountable for
their participation in this gross injustice. These private companies
have actively chosen to opt-out of paying restitution to “all
identifiable victims of the deportations or to their families,”
according to Levine.
“On this day, we remember those whose
lives were lost in the Holocaust. As individuals, as a city and as a
country, we must never forget,” said Councilman Ben Kelos, a co-sponsor
who serves as deputy chair of the NYC 14-member Jewish caucus. “We must
acknowledge that there were corporations that worked to build an
infrastructure of death.”
Kallos cited corporations like SNCF who transported over 75,000 people to concentration camps during WWII.
“I call on my colleagues in government
to tell these corporations that ‘we will never forget,’ and to stop
doing business with the corporations until they finally remember,” said
Kallos.
Rep. Maloney highlighted her efforts in
congress to secure reparations for SNCF, the French rail company
mentioned above. Maloney is working to pass the ‘Holocaust Rail Justice
Act’ in congress, by ending SNCF’s ability o shield itself from
litigation using the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
Jacob Kornbluh – JPsource
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