Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea to get money back from Switzerland's bankers, who bragged about their neutrality even while taking gold stolen, like Linder's ring, from the Jews, came to the California resident last July as he visited Austria on a lecture tour. In Vienna he read about how much looted Nazi wealth remained in Swiss banks and how others were trying to retrieve funds deposited for safekeeping there...
...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 of the Swiss accounts." Now Gabor, 80, who lives in Lawrence, New York, cannot afford the 300 Swiss francs required by Switzerland to process a claim for those who live outside the country...
Albright's mother Anna was born to a prosperous family and a comfortable life, educated, like Madeleine, in Switzerland. It was from her, Albright says, that she learned about resilience. Again and again, she would have to pack up just what they could carry and move her family to a new place, learn new customs, a new language. "Mother used to tell stories of how she had to buy pots and pans but didn't know what to choose because she had never cooked," recalls Albright's brother John. "She had no idea of what foods to purchase...
...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 to the fund until early summer, though, when a study on Switzerland's role during the Nazi era will be published. Meanwhile, other groups are expected to contribute to the reparations fund. The industrial group Alusuisse-Lonza, which used Ukrainians as forced laborers during the war, announced Monday that it will contribute "generously" to the fund. The firm's chairman called...
...Petrenko told TIME. "She's just enjoying her life." That included adding a new layer of friends, like Ari Zakarian, 30, the Russian-trained skater who was a passenger in her car the night of the accident. In the days after the crash, he slipped away to Switzerland. Reached by TIME, he said, "The accident, in my opinion, was not because she was drunk, but because she got very emotional. There was a Madonna song playing, and she loves Madonna; she was like performing, she was getting into it. So I don't think it was exactly the alcohol...