Holocaust survivor Rosalie Kent puts Douglas Lancet in the same league as the friend who harbored her in 1943 after she escaped from a Jewish ghetto and slave labor. Concentration camp refugee Elizabeth Grosinger said Mr. Lancet successfully fought to get her the compensation she was due for forced labor she performed for the Nazis.

Mr. Lancet, a descendant of Austrian and Hungarian Jews, has made it his mission to assist Holocaust survivors in obtaining reparations from the German government for work they performed in the ghettos during World War II. And he has done it entirely on his own.