USA: A LIST OF 3,100 NEWLY RELEASED NAMES OF POSSIBLE HOLOCAUST-ERA BANK ACCOUNTS ARE PUBLISHED BY SWISS BANKS

Record ID: 647688

  • Title: USA: A LIST OF 3,100 NEWLY RELEASED NAMES OF POSSIBLE HOLOCAUST-ERA BANK ACCOUNTS ARE PUBLISHED BY SWISS BANKS
  • Date: 13th January 2005
  • Summary: (W7)YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (JANUARY 13, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. SLV BROOKLYN COURTHOUSE 0.04 2. SLV PRESS CONFERENCE PAN TO NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR BURT NEUBORNE, LEAD SETTLEMENT COUNSEL FOR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT CASE, AT THE PODIUM 0.14 3. MCU (English) NEUBORNE SAYING: "This case began many years ago, back in 1996, but it actually began before then. This case begins in the 1930s when frightened people all over Europe were terrified by the rise of the Nazis and frightened that the Nazis would one day, persecute them." 0.33 4. CU REPORTER TAKING NOTES 0.37 5. MCU (English) NEUBORNE SAYING: "What is new and different today is that we have published an additional 3,100 names of accounts that we think were owned by Holocaust victims and had not yet been claimed and that means that once the publication of those accounts goes out on the website and individuals can check that and see whether any of their families names are on it. If their families names are on it, they can and should, file a claim with the settlement fund for an award of a bank account." 1.11 6. SV PRESS CONFERENCE 1.16 7. MCU (English) VICE PRESIDENT FOR THE CONFERENCE OF JEWISH MATERIAL CLAIMS AGAINST GERMANY, GIDEON TAYLOR, SAYING: "So in many ways, this Swiss bank settlement is a chapter in the history of holocaust restitution which will leave a legacy for generations to come, because of its significance. Not only because of the financial amounts involved, but for the historical records that have been created for the moral statements it made and for what the settlement has been able to do to reach heirs of bank accounts sixty years after the fact, and to reach and help holocaust survivors around the world." 1.53 AUSCHWITZ, POLAND (FILE) (REUTERS LIBRARY)(MUTE) 8. CONCENTRATION CAMPS (3 SHOTS) 2.06 UNIDENTIFIED LOCATIONS IN EUROPE (FILE) (REUTERS) 9. SWISS BANK VAULT (3 SHOTS) 2.21 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Country: USA
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  • Story Text: A list of 3,100 newly released names of possible
    Holocaust-era bank accounts are published by Swiss banks.



    The Swiss Bank Holocaust settlement fund published
    an additional list of 2,700 names of potential Swiss bank
    account owners, which they say are "probably or possibly"
    owned by victims of Nazi persecution.

    They are said to have been opened between the years
    1933-1945, and the publication of the names were made with
    the administration of the $1.25 billion dollar settlement
    between Holocaust survivors and Swiss banks reached in
    January 1999.

    The list could produce new leads for people who lost
    bank accounts during the Nazi era.

    Professor Burt Neuborne, the lead settlement counsel
    for the Claims Settlement explained the latest development.

    Neuborne said: "What is new and different today is that
    we have published an additional 3,100 names of accounts
    that we think were owned by Holocaust victims and had not
    yet been claimed and that means that once the publication
    of those accounts goes out on the website and individuals
    can check that and see whether any of their families names
    are on it. If their families names are on it, they can and should,
    file a claim with the settlement fund for an award
    of a bank account."
    The new names were published after extensive
    negotiations with Swiss authorities
    Gideon Taylor, vice-president for the conference of
    Jewish Material Claims against Germany said that the
    development was of huge importance.

    Taylor said: "So in many ways, this Swiss bank
    settlement is a chapter in the history of holocaust
    restitution which will leave a legacy for generations to
    come, because of its significance. Not only because of the
    financial amounts involved, but for the historical records
    that have been created for the moral statements it made and
    for what the settlement has been able to do to reach heirs
    of bank accounts sixty years after the fact, and to reach
    and help holocaust survivors around the world."
    People who identify family members on the new list can
    make claims for a six month period, ending on July 13.

    The list is available on www.crt-ii.org and
    www.swissbankclaims.com.


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