From: Compensation for Forced Labour [compensation@iom.int] Sent: Monday, 16 June 2003 11:05 PM To: 'chris@sengers-au.com' Subject: RE: IOM Claim Number 9999999(no changed) Rejection of claim for Personal
Injury
Dear Mr. Sengers, Thank you very much for contacting the International Organization for Migration (IOM) concerning the status of your claim for slave or forced labour under the German Forced Labour Compensation Programme. Please note that all claims filed with IOM, be it in the categories slave or forced labour, personal injury or property loss, are processed separately and claimants will receive separate notifications on all claims submitted. This means that a negative decision on a claim for personal injury has no impact on the decision on or payment of a slave or forced labour claim. If a claimant indicated on a claim form that he/she suffered from other personal injury, IOM automatically considers this as a claim on which it has to decide and all claimants concerned will be notified. Your claim for slave or forced labour is currently being processed. IOM is searching German archives in order to find additional evidence to support your claim. As of June 2003 IOM has recommended for payment 50,000 former slave and forced labourers. These represent about 70% of the total number of eligible claimants estimated at 70,000. Priority is given to claims of victims who are still alive. Claims of heirs will be dealt with after the claims of victims have been resolved. Please be assured that IOM is processing all claims as quickly as possible and is committed to complete the German Forced Labour Compensation Programme until the end of 2004. You will be notified in writing as soon as a decision on any other claim has been taken. We greatly appreciate your patience and understanding. Yours sincerely, International Organization for
Migration -----Original Message----- Hello there. Some time ago I wrote you an email. (see hereunder) Today I still have not heard anything about my
concern or I have now placed a copy of your letter of rejection
of my If you wish, you could view that at: http://www.sengers-au.com/Germany.html Also, there will be other sites on the Web that
have I am still waiting for an answer from you. Greetings, Chris & Jo Sengers Visit the Sengers Family Tree since 1340,
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-----Original Message----- Dear Sir/Madam, Today I received your Notification Of Rejection. The following has been forwarded, by Air Mail to the
Appeals Appeals Body (PIN) Re: IOM Claim Number 9999999(no changed) Dear Sir or Madam, Today I received your Notification of Rejection dated
the 21 My first reaction was of total disbelieve that my
claim was My claim was NOT for personal injury, even if I
have My claim was for SLAVE or FORCED LABOUR or, whichever
way The last sentence of your Notice of Rejection
states This decision relates only to the above-referenced
claim for This could offcourse mean that you still are
considering my Awaiting your reply. Christaan Jacobus Gerardus Sengers One Attachment. 2nd May 2003 Attachment to Appeal of: Notification of Rejection of Claim 9999999(no changed) in the
name of What a preposterous, incorrect and almost abusive way
of If anyone really would have read my claim, and
attachments The claim I made, was in the spirit of what was
stated at " if you were deported to Germany or a
Germany-occupied area Would anyone, reading my claim and attachment, think
that I Maybe it is so, the current authorities that do not
want to What more can I say. Nothing. It will be revealing
though if C.J.G.Sengers Chris & Jo Sengers Visit the Sengers Family Tree since 1340,
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EMAIL RECEIVED 17th June 2003 Rejection of claim for Personal Injury Dear Mr. Sengers, Thank you very much for contacting the International
Organization for Migration (IOM) concerning the status of your claim for slave
or forced labour under the German Forced Labour Compensation Programme. Please note that all claims filed with IOM, be it in
the categories slave or forced labour, personal injury or property loss, are
processed separately and claimants will receive separate notifications on all
claims submitted. This means that a negative decision on a claim for personal
injury has no impact on the decision on or payment of a slave or forced labour
claim. If a claimant indicated on a claim form that he/she suffered from other
personal injury, IOM automatically considers this as a claim on which it has to
decide and all claimants concerned will be notified. Your claim for slave or forced labour is currently
being processed. IOM is searching German archives in order to find additional
evidence to support your claim. As of June 2003 IOM has recommended for payment 50,000
former slave and forced labourers. These represent about 70% of the total
number of eligible claimants estimated at 70,000. Priority is given to claims
of victims who are still alive. Claims of heirs will be dealt with after the
claims of victims have been resolved. Please be assured that IOM is processing all claims as
quickly as possible and is committed to complete the German Forced Labour
Compensation Programme until the end of 2004. You will be notified in writing
as soon as a decision on any other claim has been taken. We greatly appreciate your patience and understanding. Yours sincerely, International Organization for Migration
-----Original Message----- Hello there. Some time ago I wrote you an email. (see hereunder) Today I still have not heard anything about my concern or I have now placed a copy of your letter of rejection of my If you wish, you could view that at: <http://www.sengers-au.com/Germany.html> Also, there will be other sites on the Web that have I am still waiting for an answer from you. Greetings, Chris & Jo Sengers Visit the Sengers Family Tree since 1340, ************************************************************ This email and any files transmitted with it are intended ************************************************************ -----Original Message----- Dear Sir/Madam, Today I received your Notification Of Rejection. The following has been forwarded, by Air Mail to the Appeals Appeals Body (PIN) Re: IOM Claim Number ******* Dear Sir or Madam, Today I received your Notification of Rejection dated the 21 My first reaction was of total disbelieve that my claim was My claim was NOT for personal injury, even if I have My claim was for SLAVE or FORCED LABOUR or, whichever way The last sentence of your Notice of Rejection states This decision relates only to the above-referenced claim for This could offcourse mean that you still are considering my Awaiting your reply. Christaan Jacobus Gerardus Sengers
One Attachment.
2nd May 2003 Attachment to Appeal of: Notification of Rejection of Claim ******* in the name of What a preposterous, incorrect and almost abusive way of If anyone really would have read my claim, and attachments The claim I made, was in the spirit of what was stated at “if you were deported to Germany or a Germany-occupied area Would anyone, reading my claim and attachment, think that I Maybe it is so, the current authorities that don’t want to What more can I say. Nothing. It will be revealing though if
C.J.G.Sengers
Chris & Jo Sengers Visit the Sengers Family Tree since 1340, ************************************************************ This email and any files transmitted with it are intended ************************************************************ IOM International Organization for Migration 0IM Organisation Internationale pour les
Migrations Compensation
Programmme 0IM Organizacion Internacional para las
Migraciones 21 April 2003 I0M Claim Number: 105778 EN1 ‑PIN 2/3_1009 24 CHRISTIAAN JACOBUS GERARDUS SENGERS ******* AUSTRALIA Notification of Rejection Other Personal Injury‑ Category 2 and 3 The International Organization for Migration
(IOM) has carefully considered the above‑referenced claim for payments
from funds of the German Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and
Future" in connection with other personal injuries within the meaning of
Section 11, Paragraph 1, Sentence 5 of the German Law on the Creation of a
Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future" (Foundation Law). On the basis of the provisions of the
Foundation Law and the resolutions by the Board of Trustees of the German
Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future", according to
which priority is given to certain groups of victims in granting payments, and
on account of the Federal Foundation's limited funds, you unfortunately will be
unable to receive any payment. Under Section 11, Paragraph 1, Sentence 5 of the
Foundation Law, the following groups are eligible for priority treatment in
awarding payments: * victims of medical experiments * people who, as children, were lodged in a
home for children of forced labourers and as a result suffered severe damage to
their health * people whose children died in homes for the
children of forced labourers. The Foundation Law provides for a smaller
payment to be made to people suffering extremely severe and severe damage to
their health, which is dependent on whether funds are still available from the
total amount (DM 50 million) after payments have been made to priority cases. The Foundation Law provides for a total of DM
50 million for all the Partner Organisations for the compensation of other
personal injuries. Following an examination of all the applications by the
seven Partner Organisations, the Federal Foundation and the Partner
Organisations have jointly established that the number of eligible persons who
have priority is so large that the funds are already fully exhausted by
payments to this group. From the information on your application form,
there was no indication that the injury you suffered is one of the above‑mentioned
types of personal injury, which qualifies as a priority case. ]OM is aware that on account of the limited
financial resources of the German Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility
and Future", some victims of acts of National Socialist injustice that
involved a major infringement on their physical and psychological integrity and
caused great suffering cannot be considered eligible for payment. We regret
that on the basis of the legal provisions and the resolutions taken by the
Board of Trustees of the German Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility
and Future", we have to reject the above‑referenced claim for other
personal injury. I0M
German Forced Labour Compensation Programme Tel:
+41.22.592 82 30 E‑mail: compensation @iom,int . Internet:
http://www.compensation‑for‑forced‑labour.org You may lodge an appeal against this decision
with the IOM Appeals Body. It is important that you include the ]OM claim
number stated above in your written request to appeal. Your request to appeal
must be post‑marked at the latest by 30 July 2003 and mailed to: Appeals Body (PIN) P. 0. Box 174 1211 Geneva 19 Switzerland Please note that there will be no reimbursement
of any expenses incurred in filing an appeal. No appeal is possible against the provision
granting preferential treatment to the above‑mentioned group of victims
in comparison with other groups of victims. This provision is laid down in the
Foundation Law, which means that the IOM Appeals Body cannot change it. An
appeal would only make sense if you could make a credible showing, with a detailed
personal account and, if possible, supporting documents, that your case fulfils
the conditions for eligibility for payment in connection with medical
experiments or accommodation in a home for the children of forced labourers and
damage to health suffered as a result, or in connection with the death of one's
own child in a home for the children of forced labourers. This decision relates only to the above‑referenced
claim for personal injury, and not to claims for slave or forced labour or for
property loss. International Organization for
Migration German Forced Labour Compensation
Programme 10M
German Forced Labour Compensation Programme Tel:
+41.22.592 82 30 E‑mail: compensation@iom.int ‑ Internet:
http://www.compensation‑for‑forced‑labour.org Appeals Body (PIN)
2nd May 2003 P. O. Box 174 1211 Geneva 19 Switzerland Re: IOM Claim Number ******* Dear Sir or Madam, Today I received your Notification of Rejection
dated the 21 April 2003. My first reaction was of total disbelieve that
my claim was rejected. However, on further reading I realised that
there must have been a gross misunderstanding of what my claim was about or
that a gross error was made in classifying my claim. My claim was NOT for personal injury, even if I
have suffered and am still suffering from the trauma of that period of my life. My claim was for SLAVE or FORCED LABOUR or,
whichever way you would like to call it. By careful reading of the pages of my claim you
would certainly become aware of what and how my incarceration was all about. The last sentence of your Notice of Rejection
states clearly: This decision relates only to the above-referenced claim for personal injury, and not to claims for slave or forced labour or for property loss. This could offcourse mean that you still are
considering my claim for that reason, but if not, I hereby ask you reread my
claim plus the attachment enclosed with this letter and reconsider your
decision. Awaiting your reply. Christaan Jacobus Gerardus Sengers **** Street ****
NSW 2753 Australia. One Attacment. 2nd May 2003 Attachment to Appeal of: Notification of Rejection of Claim ******* in
the name of Christiaan Jacobus Gerardus
Sengers, NSW Australia. What a preposterous, incorrect and
almost abusive way of rejecting this claim by indicating that my claim was for
personal injury and therefore rejected.
If anyone really would have read my claim, and
attachments to that claim properly, how could they come to the conclusion that
my claim was for personal injury? The claim I made, was in the spirit of what was
stated at the top of your questionnaire FLA 4, like: “if you were deported to Germany or a Germany-occupied area and were subjected to forced labour and were held in extremely harsh living conditions” Would anyone, reading my claim and attachment, think that I
was on holidays and/or being a volunteer? Did they not read that I was held captive by armed SA
officers and that the others, and I were not sleeping in comfort but at times
in barracks without blankets and food? That at times we were sleeping in the
open fields in the snow with only molten snow for quenching our thirst? No
water to wash clothing or ourselves? That our guards shot anyone that strayed outside the set
parameters? That at times the dead were just left where they were, no one
allowed to bury them? That because of the lice infestation on everything, body,
cloth etc. I would have chosen to become sick with Typhus Fever? That I would
have chosen to be left like a sack of potatoes at the gate of a hospital and by
luck being accepted by the nuns and cared for? That I would have asked to
receive the Last Holy Rites? And in the end, that I was told that there were
only 25 known survivors of the group of men of about 150? Would that have been
my free choice, to be a survivor of 1 out of 6? Maybe it is so, the current authorities that don’t want to
know about it all. Maybe the decision was made recklessly. I wonder about
whatever the reason you choose to reject my claim. Maybe you think that the
proof of my claim is insufficient. I know it is only circumstantial, copies of
pages of my diary of 1945 but I am almost certain that, in some countries, some
people have been found guilty and got live imprisonment or even the death
penalty for less circumstantial evidence than that I have produced. By the way,
I still am in the possession of that diary and it will always be kept. Also it
was the last diary I ever have maintained after that. If you wish, you can
authenticate the diary with the proviso, that it does not leave my possession. I should have been as possessive about my D.P.Card,
Displaced Persons Card issued by the American Army and/or Red Cross carrying
the details etc. Unfortunately, I lost it over the years. What more can I say. Nothing. It will be revealing though if
this Compensation Programme is really genuine. Don’t let me doubt it. C.J.G.Sengers Dear Sir/Madam, Today I received
your Notification Of Rejection. The following has
been forwarded, by Air Mail to the Appeals Body (PIN) Appeals Body
(PIN)
2nd May 2003 P. O. Box 174 1211 Geneva 19 Switzerland Re: IOM Claim
Number ******* Dear Sir or Madam, Today I received
your Notification of Rejection dated the 21 April 2003. My first reaction
was of total disbelieve that my claim was rejected. However, on
further reading I realised that there must have been a gross misunderstanding
of what my claim was about or that a gross error was made in classifying my
claim. My claim was NOT
for personal injury, even if I have suffered and am still suffering from the
trauma of that period of my life. My claim was for
SLAVE or FORCED LABOUR or, whichever way you would like to call it. By careful reading
of the pages of my claim you would certainly become aware of what and how my
incarceration was all about. The last sentence
of your Notice of Rejection states clearly: This decision
relates only to the above-referenced claim for personal injury, and not to
claims for slave or forced labour or for property loss. This could
offcourse mean that you still are considering my claim for that reason, but if
not, I hereby ask you reread my claim plus the attachment enclosed with this
letter and reconsider your decision. Awaiting your
reply. Christaan Jacobus
Gerardus Sengers NSW
2753 Australia. One Attachment. 2nd May 2003 Attachment to
Appeal of: Notification of
Rejection of Claim ******* in the name of Christiaan Jacobus
Gerardus Sengers, NSW Australia. What a
preposterous, incorrect and almost abusive way of rejecting this claim by
indicating that my claim was for personal injury and therefore rejected. If anyone really
would have read my claim, and attachments to that claim properly, how could
they come to the conclusion that my claim was for personal injury? The claim I made,
was in the spirit of what was stated at the top of your questionnaire FLA 4,
like: “if you were
deported to Germany or a Germany-occupied area and were subjected to forced
labour and were held in extremely harsh living conditions” Would anyone,
reading my claim and attachment, think that I was on holidays and/or being a
volunteer? Did they not read
that I was held captive by armed SA officers and that the others, and I were
not sleeping in comfort but at times in barracks without blankets and food?
That at times we were sleeping in the open fields in the snow with only molten
snow for quenching our thirst? No water to wash clothing or ourselves? That our guards
shot anyone that strayed outside the set parameters? That at times the dead
were just left where they were, no one allowed to bury them? That because of
the lice infestation on everything, body, cloth etc. I would have chosen to
become sick with Typhus Fever? That I would have chosen to be left like a sack
of potatoes at the gate of a hospital and by luck being accepted by the nuns
and cared for? That I would have asked to receive the Last Holy Rites? And in
the end, that I was told that there were only 25 known survivors of the group of
men of about 150? Would that have been my free choice, to be a survivor of 1
out of 6? Maybe it is so,
the current authorities that don’t want to know about it all. Maybe the
decision was made recklessly. I wonder about whatever the reason you choose to
reject my claim. Maybe you think that the proof of my claim is insufficient. I
know it is only circumstantial, copies of pages of my diary of 1945 but I am
almost certain that, in some countries, some people have been found guilty and
got live imprisonment or even the death penalty for less circumstantial
evidence than that I have produced. By the way, I still am in the possession of
that diary and it will always be kept. Also it was the last diary I ever have
maintained after that. If you wish, you can authenticate the diary with the
proviso, that it does not leave my possession. I should have been
as possessive about my D.P.Card, Displaced Persons Card issued by the American
Army and/or Red Cross carrying the details etc. Unfortunately, I lost it over the
years. What more can I
say. Nothing. It will be revealing though if this Compensation Programme is
really genuine. Don’t let me doubt it. C.J.G.Sengers Chris & Jo
Sengers mailto:chris@sengers-au.com mailto:Jo@sengers-au.com Visit the Sengers
Family Tree since 1340, the pages of my
Claim for Compensation for German
Slave/Forced Labour 1945 including copies of the
pages of my 1945 diary of that period at
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