Word: holocaust
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...they were crooked, they embezzled the money long ago or, by making withdrawals or deposits, have fended off investigators looking at dormant accounts. Ten years after an account is closed, banks destroy the records. "I'm sure we will not find much for the heirs of the Holocaust," says Switzerland's independent bank ombudsman Hanspeter Hani, "but I'm sure we will get some results...
...dispatching investigators to hear the stories of survivors like Estelle Sapir. Earlier this month the U.S. State Department announced a "thorough and immediate study" of what it knew about the Swiss handling of assets from Germany during and after the war. And in New York City this month, Holocaust survivors and heirs filed a $20 billion class action contending that Swiss banks improperly refused to return victims' money and other valuables on deposit. Says Swiss Foreign Ministry spokesman Jean-Philippe Tissieres: "This publicity is really killing...
...several countries urge that it be given to surviving victims of Nazism, or to charities or Israel. That step is needed to right the wrong the Allies perpetrated when they ignored individual claims on the gold, suggests Greville Janner, a British Member of Parliament and chairman of the Holocaust Educational Trust. "Now is the time to do what is worthy and decent and honorable," he says, "which is to give the residual gold to the victims, Jewish and non-Jewish." Such a step is "highly unlikely," a British Foreign Office spokesman says, since the remaining gold is destined...
...seen naked by his son Ham and invokes a curse on Ham's son Canaan that Armstrong suggests presages the slaughter of the Canaanites later in the Bible. "You come out of the Ark...and what do you do?" Armstrong asks rhetorically. "You lay the seeds for a new holocaust." All this is too much for Baptist minister and professor Samuel Proctor. "Sure, I wish that we could have had a story [including commentary on why Noah] didn't ask somebody, "Would you like to come in and join us?'" he responds. But "that's not the point...
Kramer's approach is not systematic, and the subjects of her six chapters are very specific: a restaurant in a bohemian district of West Berlin, an East German poet who spied on his friends for the secret police, the struggle over what kind of Holocaust memorial--if any--should be built in Berlin. Perhaps the most poignant and telling of the stories is the one about a young man whom Kramer calls Peter Schmidt, a drifting East German who tried to escape when the Wall still existed, was caught and imprisoned but was eventually sold to the West (the East...