Curt C. Silberman (May 23, 1908 – September 9, 2002) was a German-Jewish and American attorney, community leader, and member of Jewish organizations in both Germany and the United States. Born Kurt Leo Silbermann in

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, he and his wife Else fled due to the rampant

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of the Nazi era and settled in New Jersey. His legal career in the United States focused on restitution work for the victims of the Nazi government. Silberman was active in many Jewish organizations. He was a co-founder of the

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, and for a period of time, the head of American Federation of Jews from Central Europe and a member of the Executive Committee of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.Curt C. Silberman
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. Retrieved 2015-11-13.

External links

Guide to the Curt C. Silberman Collection
at the

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Oral history interview with Curt Silberman

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Silberman, Curt C. Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States Restitution 20th-century American lawyers American people of German-Jewish descent German-Jewish culture in the United States 1908 births 2002 deaths