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...season to be sorry. Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and other thriving German companies are now facing class-action suits from the thousands of slave laborers forced to work in their factories during the Nazi era, while Swiss banks that once swallowed Jewish assets have offered up $1 billion to Holocaust survivors. Former Bosnian leaders are facing international tribunals for crimes against humanity. And Jiang Zemin, his own human rights violations notwithstanding, has embarked this week on his first state visit to Japan, demanding written apologies from the Japanese government for its brutality in China during the 1930s and '40s-an apology...
...appears that the investigation into unclaimed bank accounts of Holocaust victims may cost the Swiss banking establishment a billion-plus francs (say $800 million)--perhaps more than the total value of the original deposits. The international investigating commission under PAUL VOLCKER, former chief of the Fed, says it needs until June 1999 to finish its work. The Volcker Commission has 500 chartered accountants combing through tons of archives at 63 banks, and those sleuths don't come cheap. The bankers are livid about the expense and time; some of the smaller banks are threatening to throw out the commission...
...appears that the investigation into unclaimed bank accounts of Holocaust victims may cost the Swiss banking establishment a billion-plus francs (say $800 million) -- perhaps more than the total value of the original deposits. The international investigating commission under Paul Volcker, former chief of the Fed, says it needs until June 1999 to finish its work. The Volcker Commission has 500 chartered accountants combing through tons of archives at 63 banks, and those sleuths don?t come cheap. The bankers are livid about the expense and time; some of the smaller banks are threatening to throw out the commission...
BEYOND THE HOLOCAUST...
...rode the Green Line to the Museum of Fine Arts for the Boston Jewish Film Festival, I nursed similar expectations. What's the first thing that comes to mind when you prepare yourself to watch films that treat "Jewish themes," as the program booklet put it? The Holocaust. I, too, looked forward to a series of Schindler's Lists and documentaries. Arriving at the Museum, I discovered that few of the films listed in the program booklet had anything at all to do with what most consider the watershed experience of Jewish culture. "Jewish themes" went beyond the Holocaust...