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For Holocaust victims or their heirs or representatives who believe they may
have wartime bank acounts in Switzerland, here is a list of those working on
behalf of claimants:
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The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles is helping to gather names
of claimants to lost assets and bank accounts. The Center has been collecting
thousands of names and forwarding them to the law firms handling class action
lawsuits.
The Wiesenthal Center's Web site
has a 'Claimant's Form' where claimants can list the reasons they believe
someone in their family deposited assets in a Swiss bank before or during
World War II which were not recoverable after the war. Their Web site also
lists over 1500 Swiss bank accounts frozen during WWII.
Phone Number: (310) 553-9036
Fax: (310) 553-4521
Address: 9760 West Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90035
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There are three class action lawsuits. In March 1997 a Brooklyn Federal
judge ruled to consolidate them and they now will be administered by a
10-member executive committee. Therefore, regardless of which law firm gets a
claimant's name, all names eventually will be combined into one 'plan of
notification.' When plaintiffs are finally in a position where money gets
distributed, all names - from all the lawsuits - will be on that list.
The first lawsuit against Swiss Banks was filed by Fagan & Associates in
New York to recover bank accounts and looted property of Holocaust victims.
Attorney Ed Fagan is representing several thousand survivors and their families
and in July will begin taking testimony of aged and infirm survivors with
important evidence against the Banks.
Phone: 212-293-1900
Fax: 212-293-3800
Email: faganlaw@cybernex.net
Address: Edward D. Fagan Esq. , Fagan Associates
26 Broadway, 21st Floor
New York, NY 10004
A Class Action lawsuit was filed by Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll on
behalf of three classes of plaintiffs against the Swiss Union Bank for
witholding assets deposited prior to and during WWII. The three classes of
plaintiffs are:
--Rightful owners of Nazi looted assets and/or their heirs (people who had
their assets looted in the camps or prior to being sent to the camps);
-- Slave laborers and/or their heirs (people who worked at no pay for German
companies to avoid being sent to concentration camps or to avoid being gassed
while in those camps);
-- Certain Swiss bank depositors and/or their heirs (people who made deposits
prior to and during the war who have been unable to reclaim those assets)
Contact: Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll
Web site:
(http://www.plaintiffs-law.com/cwswsgld.htm)
Email: lawinfo@cmht.com
Washington D.C. Ph: 202-408-4600
Seattle, Washington Ph: 206-521-0080
A Class Action lawsuit was filed by the Philadelphia law firm of Berger
& Montague, P.C. on behalf of the World Council of Orthodox Jewish
Communities and other nongovernmental groups whose members are Holocaust
survivors.
This law firm also is receiving names forwarded from Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll. Contact Berger & Montague if you have any information pertinent
to this lawsuit , including documents, which you believe would assist the
plaintiffs.
Contact: Bonnie Sperling, Berger & Montague
Phone: 1-800- 424-6690
Email: swissbanks@bm.net
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The Swiss Bankers Association published this on
July 23, 1997 as part of a newly created, expedited claims process. At
this web site you can find a list of all known dormant Swiss bank
accounts opened by non-Swiss customers before the end of World War II.
The web site also contains a Claim Form and an Information Kit describing
the claims process and how to file a claim.
Web site: http://www.dormantaccounts.ch/
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