The Company for Locating and Retrieving Assets of People who were Killed in the Holocaust intends to publish a list of properties and invite heirs of the victims to claim them. However, the banks have refused to cooperate with the company and transfer the accounts of Holocaust victims’ to it. Two MKs from the Knesset’s Constitution yesterday threatened to petition the High Court of Justice to force the banks to return the money to the Holocaust victims’ heirs.
The company’s acting head, Yishai Amrami, said a list of some 500 lots, some 50 apartments and NIS 60 million in various bank accounts, is to be released in two weeks. This will be the first publication of a list of Holocaust victims’ assets that have been held in Israel.
The move is intended to launch the process of returning of the Holocaust victims’ property and funds – many years after a similar process took place in European states.
(Haaretz)
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Is this going to be a complete list? The European countries have been withholding disclosure because of their fear that survivors and their descendents will go after their assets such as Swiss bank accounts. The cruelty of it all?
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