Ms. Cornell was born in Rakovnik in what is now the Czech Republic. Her entire family was deported to Nazi Concentration Camps in 1942. Before he went to Auschwitz, her father told his family that he had purchased several insurance policies in a plan to provide for their future. Ms. Cornell was the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust. She tried unsuccessfully to obtain payment of the proceeds of her father's policies but was refused by the insurance carriers who sold the coverage.

Margret Zentner, 75, Little Neck, N.Y.

When she was young, Ms. Zenter's German father bought dowry insurance (a kind of annuity common at the time in some parts of Europe), payable upon her 21st birthday or earlier marriage. After she survived a series of Nazi camps, she sought payment of the benefits on the policy, but the insurance carrier refused to honor it.

Rudy Rosenberg

Mr. Rosenberg was a child in Brussels, Belgium, during the Holocaust and remembers Winterthur agents coming to the family's home in 1942. The family bought a special policy that involved an immediate payment and a second payment to be made within a year. By the time that premium fell due, Mr. Roseberg's family and other Jews in Brussels had been deported to camps and/or killed. Mr. Rosenberg remembered that the agents targeted Jewish families and asked purchasers to recommend other Jews who would be interested in purchasing this kind of security for their children's future. He suspects they were aware of the Nazis' timetable and never expected the purchasers to be able to make the second premium payment.

Tibor Breuer, 45, Olympia, Wash.

Mr. Breuer's Hungarian mother and father met and married after their separate families were killed in the Holocaust. Mr. Breuer's mother tried unsuccessfully to recover the benefits of her father's life insurance policy, but the carrier refused to honor it. The family fled to Canada after the Soviet Army crushed the Hungarian revolution in 1956.

Dr. Israel Miller, President

Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany

Dr. Miller was elected in 1982 to head the Claims Conference, which includes 23 major national and international Jewish organizations. It serves as the official body representing the interest of all Jewish victims of Nazi persecution to the federal Republic of Germany. He also serves as President of the Committee for Jewish Claims on Austria. Dr. Miller, who served as a chaplain with the Army Air Corps during World War II, was selected for the National Citizens Committee for Community Relations by President Johnson. He has served as a special U.S. envoy several times and has met with many major political figures, including the last five U.S. presidents. He is past chairman of the Strategy Committee of the Israel Task Force, and is an Executive Committee member of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council. He is a board member of the Jerusalem Foundation. In 1975, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin conferred upon Dr. Miller a special personal award for leadership and service to Israel and the Jewish people.

Saul Kagan, Executive Vice President

Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany

Mr. Kagan currently also serves as administrator of the Claims Conference Hardship and Article 2 Funds which are responsible for distribution of approximately $1 billion to special groups of Jewish Nazi victims who left Eastern Europe in recent years, as well as to Holocaust survivors who received no or only minimal compensation under the German Federal Indemnification Law, and to institutions sheltering aged Holocaust survivors.

Mr. Kagan also is Executive Vice President of the Committee for Jewish Claims on Austria. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the World Jewish Restitution Organization. After World War II, he served as Chief of Financial Intelligence of the U.S. Military Gevernment in Germany.

REPRESENTING ALLIANZ AG

Richard A. Williamson

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