Holocaust Victims Reparations

Kinsella Media served as part of the notice team that designed and implemented a worldwide program to reach Holocaust survivors and their heirs in the Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation. Kinsella’s years of communication expertise and creativity were most evident in the unprecedented effort to find and successfully deliver notice to the Roma (gypsies) in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Selected Case Experience

In re Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation

Nos. CV-96-4849, CV-96-5161, and CV-97-461 (E.D.NY)

Kinsella Media planned and managed paid media directed to Jewish people in the United States as well as press outreach in 37 countries with press conferences/briefings over a 24 hour period in Berlin, Budapest, Moscow, Paris, Tel Aviv and New York. Kinsella was also responsible for providing notice to the Romani Holocaust victims. Using in-country organizers and human rights organizations, the firm designed and implemented a “grassroots” campaign to reach the isolated and educationally disadvantaged Roma in 15 countries in Europe and the former Soviet Union.

The International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims Outreach

The International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC) headed by former U.S. Secretary of State, Lawrence S. Eagleburger, worked with international insurance companies Allianz AG, AXA, Generali, Winterthur Leben, Zurich Financial Services, and their subsidiaries to initiate a process to resolve the unpaid insurance claims of Holocaust victims, survivors, their heirs and beneficiaries for life, education and dowry policies issued between 1920 and 1945.

The outreach program conducted by the Swiss Banks notice team involved 70 countries, utilizing paid advertising in mainstream and Jewish publications, press conferences and other earned media activities, work through Jewish religious, social and cultural organizations as well as the development of in-country outreach coordinators in the United States, Israel, Eastern and Western Europe, areas of the former Soviet Union and Latin America. Kinsella Media coordinated the project, executed international earned media and placed U.S. paid media.

"[T]he notice distribution was excellently designed, reasonably calculated to reach potential class members, and ultimately highly successful in doing so… [T]he notice program provided the best practicable notice under the circumstances and complied with the requirements of both 15 U.S.C. 15c(b)(1) and Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure."

— Judge D. Brock Hornby
In re Compact Disc Minimum Advertised Price Antitrust Litigation MDL No. 1361 (D. Me.)

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