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Linder, now rich enough not to worry, wondered instead about the poorest survivors struggling to get along, the ones without big Swiss bank accounts from the old days. "I thought, Why shouldn't this money be got for all Holocaust victims?" he says, and so he hired a lawyer to investigate, then threatened to sue the banks if they did not create a reparations fund. The banks were "negative, negative, negative...
...Linder is nothing if not tenacious--how else would he have come out of Auschwitz alive--and he made himself the bane of the banks. The Swiss press dubbed him David against Goliath. His lawyer bombarded the banks with letters and warned of lawsuits, but action was held up when one bank after another came forward with a promise to contribute to a fund. "My friends tell me enough is enough. But enough is not enough. The Swiss have the audacity to keep this money that does not belong to them and to make money with it. It should...
...Yorker Naomi Weisz Nagel, 56, the story began with precious coded letters miraculously smuggled out of Czechoslovakia by her parents in 1943. An aunt who survived the war showed her how the letters contained the numbers of a secret Swiss account disguised as a telephone number. But when she and her aunt tried to retrieve the money from a Basel bank after the war, officials said there were no records of the account. "Despite our specific identification of an account number at a specific bank, despite having hired a Swiss lawyer, the bank refused to return my family's money...
Leslie Gabor's mother trusted a personal code too. She started sending money to Swiss banks from Bercel, Hungary, in 1940, noting the account numbers and bank names on the bottom of a dining-room chest and underneath a kitchen cabinet. Transferring funds three times a year, she had amassed about $100,000 by 1943. In 1944 Gabor's mother, brother and sister were transported to Auschwitz. Gabor and his father escaped, but when they reached the family house, everything was gone. "All the furniture had been removed by the Germans. We no longer had the names and numbers...
...York City resident Rudolphine Schlinger says she too has proof her husband William had Swiss bank accounts. The wealthy furrier had made deposits before and during the war from his home in Versoix, Switzerland. But he died in 1985 without having retrieved the funds. Then a December 1996 article in the newspaper Jewish Week listed his account at Swiss Bank Corp. At a hearing last week in New York City attended by a representative from the bank, the 89-year-old widow appealed directly for restitution. "To you, sir, I ask, rather I demand, that you tell me what happened...