Jan. 12


SWITZERLAND:

Swiss to Publish More Names of Holocaust Accounts

Swiss banks have agreed to publish an additional 3,100 names of bank
account holders who were probably Holocaust victims, allowing survivors
and heirs of Nazi victims a chance to recover money inaccessible for more
than 50 years, lawyers for survivors said on Tuesday.

The list will be unveiled at a press conference on Thursday in Brooklyn,
law firm Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach said in a statement.

The list is in addition to the publication in 2001 of 21,000 names of
Swiss account holders who were considered likely Nazi victims.

Over 2,800 awards worth about $240 million have already been made to those
showing that they or their relatives had Swiss bank deposits from 1933 to
1945 that were not repaid.

The names are being published as part of a $1.25 billion settlement with
Swiss banks reached in 1998 between Holocaust survivors and Swiss banks.

(source: Reuters)