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Pablo Picasso, Woman with Hairnet, September 1956

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Final Accounts

Many Jewish Swiss accounts are

forever lost, report shows.

had believed that Swiss banks would
provide a safe haven for their funds
during the Nazi era.
The panel, formally known as the
New York
Independent
Committee of Eminent
he long, sad saga of dor-
Persons,
and
headed
by former U.S.
mant Holocaust-era
Federal Reserve Chairman Paul
accounts in Swiss banks has
Volcker, was created by the World
come to a somewhat incon-
Jewish
Restitution Organization and
clusive end.
the
Swiss
Bankers Association in May
After hundreds of auditors pored
1996 to investigate the
over bank records for
dormant
accounts.
three years, a panel over-
Jewish
groups accused
seeing the massive
the
Swiss
banks more
research effort identified
than
four
years
ago of
nearly 54,000 accounts
hoarding
the
wealth
of
that may have belonged
Holocaust victims.
to victims of the Nazis. It
The accusation not
said that about half of
only
tarnished
them should be published
Switzerland's
long-cher-
in an effort to find the
ished
reputation
as a
owners or their rightful
neutral"
country
during
heirs.
the
war;
it
also
mush-
But there were many
Sara Gleich receives a Swiss
roomed into a hunt for
more accounts with so lit- payment in Moscow.
Jewish
assets from the
tle documentation that
Holocaust
and Nazi-
the teams of researchers
looted
gold
that
still
occupies
many
were left stymied.
Western
European
nations,
the
United
The "whole story" of the panel's
States,
Brazil
and
Argentina.
work is "what we didn't find," Israel
The Volcker Commission's report
Singer, secretary-general of the World
lent
credence -- based on documenta-
Jewish Congress and an alternate on
tion it found in the records of several,
the panel, said Monday, the day the
unnamed Swiss banks — to long-
report was released.
standing charges that the banks turned
He was referring to 2 million
a deaf ear to the needs of Jewish depos-
accounts opened between 1933 and
itors while snapping to the directives
1945 that lacked almost all traces of
issued by officials in Nazi Germany.
documentation.
In addition, the total number of
It will never be known how many
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ACCOUNTS on page 32
of them had been opened by Jews who

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Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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THERE IS A DIFFERENCE.

Berlin
he American Jewish Committee
has compiled the largest known
list of German companies that used
slave workers during the Nazi era.
The list, which contains 257 corn-
pany names, is expected to put pres-
sure on Germany and German firms
negotiating a fund to compensate slave
laborers.
The organization publicized the
list Tuesday — one day before the
next round of negotiations was

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scheduled to resume in Washington.
Up to now, the longest list, with
names of 80 companies, was compiled
by a German group known as Action
Reconciliation.
"History will not allow these firms
to hide," said Eugene DuBow, outgo-
ing director of the AJCommittee's
Berlin office.
Even the new list is far from final,
according to a source close to the pro-
ject. Certain archives in Germany
remain closed, but hopefully "we will
blast them open," the source said
Monday.
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