Eventually, several groups, including the Claims Conference, provided funds.

In 1957, Farben paid $7 million to victims under an agreement with the Jewish Claims Conference.

Last year, the Claims Conference, which started in the 1950's, distributed $239 million to survivors.

Still, with the Claims Conference as the chief negotiator, $50 billion was eventually paid out and 80,000 people currently receive German pensions.

The Claims Conference has been criticised recently both for its high staff salaries and of its priorities.

But the Claims Conference needed someone like him.

In 1992, the organization was inducted to the Claims Conference in New York.

Sanbar was made deputy chairman of the Claims Conference, and in 1996 appointed as its international treasurer.

In 2002 he was elected as Chairman of the Executive of the Claims Conference and held this position until 2006.

The organization they established, the Claims Conference, had political clout and could find victims and administer payments.