Word: heirless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...World War II," he said, "too often being neutral provided a pretext for avoiding moral considerations." And that went for the U.S. too, Eizenstat said. "Neither the U.S. nor the allies pressed the neutral countries hard enough to fulfill their moral obligations to help Holocaust survivors by redistributing heirless assets for their benefit." Fifty years later, restitution is slowly coming. The U.S. and British governments are now making moves toward freeing up 5.5 tons of Nazi gold worth $63 million in a frozen Tripartite Gold Commission account for possible use in a Holocaust reparations fund...