The actual starting date depends on when the money arrives from Germany, said spokeswoman Marie-Agnes Heine. The organization is handling claims from people beyond the reach of six Jewish and Eastern European organizations also distributing money from the fund. It says it has received more than 90,000 completed claim forms from a pool of at least 200,000 possible victims. The agency said it has set up an electronic processing system to make compensation payments to victims as rapidly as possible. It is providing claim forms in 19 languages through its 32 offices around the world to reach as many people as possible by the Aug. 11 deadline for making contact to file a claim.
German law defines a slave laborer as someone forced to work in a concentration camp or ghetto.
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