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What turned this courtly, resolute advocate into the point man for reclaiming Jewish assets from Switzerland was a chair--or, more precisely, the lack of a chair. On Sept. 12, 1995, Bronfman went with Singer to a meeting in Bern. They wanted to ask the Swiss Bankers Association to investigate the dormant accounts of Holocaust victims. Without offering their visitors a seat, the bankers began to dictate their terms. They proposed turning over $32 million discovered in 774 Jewish accounts since the war and suggested that that would close the matter for good. "I don't think it occurred...
Israel Singer packed his briefcase with Safehaven documents when he and Bronfman flew to Bern in September 1995. One by one, he laid them on the table before officials of the Swiss Bankers Association, charting a trail of the banks' complicity. Singer and Bronfman insisted the bankers come clean about their role, restoring Jewish funds to Holocaust survivors. But, recalls Singer, "they stonewalled us," offering merely the $32 million found in 774 dormant accounts...
...BERN: The Swiss government agreed to manage a fund started by the country's three largest banks to compensate Holocaust victims. The banks had announced last week that they would put $71 million of seed money into an account at the Swiss National Bank, but said that they expected the government to manage the reparations fund and contribute to it. Swiss Foreign Minister Flavio Cotti said the account would be established within a week, and would be followed by discussions with business and Jewish organizations on how to disburse the money. The government won't decide on whether to contribute...
...British Archives, which reveals that an immense amount of gold the Nazis looted from banks and private holdings in occupied countries ended up in Switzerland. Citing a Swiss banker who "let it slip," the report says some $500 million in Nazi gold was on deposit in Switzerland, a charge Bern vigorously denies. Not all of it was taken from captured central banks. Some was gold from the jewelry and teeth of Jewish victims of death camps. The Germans then remelted it into ingots and camouflaged them with the stamp of the prewar Reichsbank. Despite knowledge of the magnitude of such...
Taylor also authored over 100 original articles and numerous international collaborations with scientists. In 1993 Taylor received an honorary doctor of medicine degree from the University of Bern, Switzerland...