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Et Tu, Yisrael?

Holocaust survivors say Israel kept
their assets afier the war.

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chased in pre-stare Israel. "It is a moral
outrage that the State of Israel and
Jewish organizations are campaigning
against European companies, Swiss
banks and foreign governments at a
time when the State of Israel has not
even bothered to look at the issue,"
says Gil Raveh, an Israeli lawyer who
is Schreiber's grandson.
The issue was first raised in 1997
by Yossi Katz, a geography professor at
Rar-Ilan University.
While conducting a study on the
history of the Jewish National Fund,

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Jerusalem

uring the past few years, as
Jewish organizations pressed
Swiss banks to make good
on dormant bank accounts
that belonged to Holocaust victims,
Rachel Schreiber, an 86-year-old
Israeli, started feeling uneasy.
As the battle heated up, the Polish-
born Schreiber was filled with memo-
ries from 1935 — just two years
before she married, moved
to Palestine and left behind
her parents and sister, who
later perished in the
Holocaust.
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from her dental studies in
France, Schreiber had a
conversation with her
father, Henoch Nutkewicz,
a wealthy real estate busi-
nessman, about his part-
ner's success in getting a
large sum of money out of
Poland.
The money was not
deposited in Switzerland,
but in the Anglo-Palestine Bank, the
precursor of Bank Leumi, Israel's sec-
ond largest bank today.
"My father told me it was our
money, too," says Schreiber. "Until the
restitution issue came up, I never
thought about it. It's one thing if
Switzerland tries to avoid responsibili-
ty, but my money is here in Israel."
During the past few weeks, since
the Knesset decided to launch a com-
mission to investigate the issue of
Holocaust-era assets in Israel, hun-
dreds of Israelis have been coming for-
ward with similar stories.
Schreiber's case — which was sub-
mitted last November in the form of a
lawsuit that prompted Bank Leumi to
open its files on dormant accounts —
is just one that many say illustrates
how Israel's record on restitution may
be questionable.
Critics say Israel has waited too
long to investigate what happened to
financial and real estate assets that
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1947 in which the JNF asked Bank
Leumi for information about financial
assets that may have belonged to
Holocaust victims.
Leumi responded that it could not
provide information for reasons of
banking secrecy.
"I nearly fell off my chair," says
Katz. "I said to myself — this is exact-
ly what happened with the Swiss
banks."

Bank Posting

In January, Bank Leumi posted
13,000 dormant accounts on its
Internet site — www.bankleumi.coil
— dating from the bank's establish-
ment in 1902 through 1955. The
bank will accept queries on the
accounts until July 31.
Bank Leumi denies that it ever
tried to hide the fact that it had dor --
mant accounts.
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the press accusing us of saying that we

