Show me the money

Holocaust fund investigated for ‘unusual’ money transfers

The World Jewish Congress, which has wrung billions of dollars in Holocaust restitution from European governments and companies, is being investigated by the authorities in New York following a series of unusual money transfers of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

New chapter in Holocaust justice

A Jewish family is fighting a legal battle with L’Oreal to receive compensation for property lost to Nazis.

Jewish survivors of the Holocaust have closed yet another chapter in a unique case, in which not Germany but the US was the side charged. The US was not quick to come clean in the “Hungarian gold train” affair.

MIAMI (Reuters) — The U.S. government and lawyers for tens of thousands of Hungarian Holocaust survivors have agreed to settle a lawsuit seeking compensation for a trainload of gold, jewelry and other property seized by the U.S. Army at the end of World War II, lawyers for both sides said on Monday.

Israeli banks profit from Holocaust

Investigations by the Israeli parliament have dug up disturbing evidence that Israel has been profiting for decades from vast sums invested in local banks by European Jews who died in the Nazi death camps.

• Swiss Holocaust cash revealed to be myth

MOST dormant Swiss bank accounts thought to have belonged to Holocaust survivors were opened by wealthy, non-Jewish people who then forgot about their money.