he became chairman of the Association of Northwestern Germany's Jewish Congregations () and member of the board of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. I.G. Farben claim In 1950 Norbert Wollheim sued I.G. Farbenindustrie AG in liquidation for his salary as a forced labourer and compensation for damages. His lawsuit was the first test case of a former forced labourer against a company in Germany. In 1953, Frankfurt's Landgericht convicted IG Farben i.L. and ordered them to pay, at the first hearing, DM 10,000 in punitive damages to Wollheim. At the second hearing, Frankfurt's Oberlandesgericht settled the lawsuit with a global settlement awarding several thousand of the former slave labourers of I.G. Farben DM 30 million. The settlement apart from the parties of the lawsuit involved the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany. The settlement was accompanied by a law () in 1957 passed by the West German Bundestag. Wollheim emigrated to the U.S. in September 1951 and settled in New York City, where he studied to become an accountant. He exercised his profession until the mid-1980s. Wollheim provided his services on a pro bono basis to organisations like the US Holocaust Council and the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Survivors. References Wollheim, Norbert: "Belsen’s Place in the Process of „Death-and-Rebirth“ of the Jewish People", in: Irgun She'erit Hapleita Me'ha'ezor Habriti, Belsen: London: The Narod Press, 1957, pp. 52–66. Norbert Wollheim Memorial: Rudberg, Pontus, The Swedish Jews and the Holocaust, Abingdon & New York, 2017, pp. 136–137 Wollheim, Norbert, "Wir haben Stellung bezogen", in: Richard Chaim Schneider, Wir sind da! Die Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland von 1945 bis heute, Berlin: Ullstein, 2000, pp. 108–120 Wollheim, Norbert, "Jüdische Selbstverwaltung in der britischen Zone", in: Michael Brenner, Nach dem Holocaust: Juden in Deutschland 1945-1950, Munich: Beck, 1995, pp. 141–147 Benz, Wolfgang, Wiedergutmachung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 1989, (=Schriftenreihe der Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte Sondernummer), pp. 303–326 External links Norbert Wollheim papers and Benjamin B. Ferencz collection on the trial against I.G. Farbenindustrie AG i.L. Henry Ormond papers on the trial against I.G. Farbenindustrie AG i.L. Norbert Wollheim Memorial Website Link to information about the Academy Award-winning documentary in which Norbert Wollheim is featured, "Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport" (2000) Link to free downloadable companion study guide for "Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport" (2000) 1913 births 1998 deaths 20th-century German Jews