According to Monika Brzozowska-Pasieka, president of the Foundation for Compensation Defense (FDC), These are the first lawsuits of this type filed in Poland by heirs or descendants of victims.
The complaints were filed before the Krakow (south) district court independently and by a different legal representation for each case, but the FDC provides legal and logistical support, through access to international jurisprudence and expert consultation from several countries. The first of the lawsuits was filed by the family of Leopold Wellisz, a Polish financier and industrialist of Jewish origin. who had to flee the country and whose brother Karol was killed by the Germans.
Daughter of Nazi victim asks Bayer AG for large sum
Leopold Wellisz’s grandsons, Krzysztof Wellisz, Tadeusz Wellisz and Michael Tremmer, demand from the German company Henschel GmBH, as a subsidiary of the former Henschel und Sohn, about 4 million dollars and an apology for the violation of the rights and encroachment on the family’s property.
The second of the lawsuits has been filed by the daughter of a Polish engineer who spent five years in the German Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where he was subjected to forced labor for the German company IG Farben, founded and co-created by Bayer ( currently Bayer AG).
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The victim’s daughter asks Bayer AG for compensation of about $400,000and in the letter of his complaint it is indicated that “the president of this company, as well as the members of the board of directors, actively participated in medical experiments and in the use of forced labor in Auschwitz-Birkenau (…) and the president himself of Bayer AG was convicted at the Nuremberg trials.
According to the legal representation of the families, until now the lawsuits filed from Poland by heirs and descendants were directed against the German State, which in turn invoked its immunity, but, on the advice of the FDC, they have chosen to focus on denouncing forced labor. or expropriations and denounce specific companies.
“We have been preparing for these trials for many months, if not years. It was a huge job based on the legal analysis we carried out in the United States, Greece, Italy and Serbia,” explained lawyer Jerzy Pasieka.
“New trials are being prepared and will soon be in court,” he added. In September 2022, the Polish government formalized the petition, endorsed in a parliamentary vote and supported by data from a report by a Polish-appointed historical commission to claim $1.3 billion from Germany for material damage suffered in World War II.
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