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"Independent Committee of Eminent Persons" aka Volcker Committee |
Committee set up by the Swiss Bankers' Association. Chair: Paul Volcker. The Jewish side is represented by Chairman of the Latin American Jewish Congress Reuben Braja, Chairman of the Jewish Agency Avraham Burg, and American industrialist Ronald Lauder. The Swiss appointees are Professors Alain Hirsch, Klaus Jacobi and Curt Gateyger. The alternates for the Jewish side are Zvi Barak and Israel Singer and for the Swiss, Hans Baer and Dr. Peider Menigiardi. |
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"Holocaust Humanitarian Fund" aka "Special fund" |
Fund capitalized at $190 million. Seven member executive. President: Rolf Bloch, other Jewish members: Joseph Burg, MK Avraham Herschson. |
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"Internal Commission of Experts" |
Swiss commission headed by historian Prof. Bergier. Other historians: Sybil Milton (Holocaust Museum in Washington) Saul Friedlander (Jerusalem). |
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"Solidarity Fund" |
The fund, which will be endowed with assets worth $4.7 billion, and which will distribute $250 million per year, is slated to be set up next year. The purpose of the fund is to aid Swiss indigents, victims of natural disasters, and victims of persecution including Holocaust survivors. |
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Allianz AG insurance group |
Munich based insurer |
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American Jewish Committee |
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Anderson, Kill & Olick |
legal firm suing the insurance companies |
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Anderson, Larry |
lawyer at Anderson, Kill & Olick - one of the firms suing the insurers |
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Assicurazioni Generali |
large Italian insurer |
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Baer, Hans |
alternate Swiss member of the Independent Committee of Eminent Persons |
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Bank Julius Baer |
private Swiss bank |
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Banque Cantonale Vaudoise |
one of four banks chosen by the Volcker Committee for the sample group of four banks to test methods of tracking Holocaust accounts. (bought Credit Foncier Vaudois Bank) |
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Barak, Zvi |
alternate Jewish member of the Independent Committee of Eminent Persons |
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Becher, Kurt |
Nazi blackmailer |
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Beckmann, Matthias |
Swiss Bank Corp. spokesman |
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Bergier, Prof. |
Heads "Internal Commission of Experts" investigating committee |
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Bielinsky, Jan |
spokesman for Bank Julius Baer |
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Blau, Gisela |
Swiss journalist |
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Blick |
conservative Swiss newspaper |
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Bloch, Rolf |
leader of Swiss Jews, president of the Humanitarian fund. |
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Blocher, Christoph |
right wing Swiss politician |
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Borer, Thomas |
Swiss ambassador, chief of the Swiss Task Force on the Assets of Nazi Victims, Deputy Director General of Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
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Bradsher, Greg |
assistant branch chief at National Archives |
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Braja, Reuben |
Chairman of the Latin American Jewish Congress, member of Independent Committee of Eminent Persons |
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Bronfman, Edgar M. |
president of WJC, chairman of Seagram |
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Bubb, Cristoph H. |
legal counselor at Swiss Embassy |
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Burg, Avraham |
Chairman of the Jewish Agency, member of the Independent Committee of Eminent Persons |
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Burg, Joseph |
member Holocaust Humanitarian Fund |
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Chapuis, Jean-Paul |
director in SBA |
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Cohen, Marc |
Washington-based attorney for the Swiss Bankers Association |
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Corriere della Sera |
Italian newspaper alleging that Assucurazioni Generali insured concentration camps |
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Cotti, Flavio |
Swiss Foreign Minister (Director of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs) |
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Credit Foncier Vaudois Bank |
Lausanne bank taken over by Banque Cantonale Vaudoise |
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Credit Suisse |
One of the 3 largest Swiss Banks. One of four banks chosen by the Volcker Committee for the sample group to test methods of tracking Holocaust accounts. |
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D'Amato, Senator
Alfonse M (R-NY) |
chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs |
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Defago, Alfred |
Swiss consul general in US |
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Delamuraz, Jean-Pascal |
Swiss president 1996 ("this is extortion") |
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Donovan, William |
chief of OSS during WWII |
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Dugan, John |
Swiss Bank Corp. NY CEO |
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Eizenstat, Stuart E. |
Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade |
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Fagan, Edward |
lawyer filing class-action suit against Swiss |
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Federal Council |
Swiss government |
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Feigel, Sigi |
organizer in Swiss Jewish community |
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Flug, Noah |
WJRO chairman |
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Foxman, Abraham |
national director of ADL |
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Friedlander, Saul |
member of the Internal Commission of Experts |
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Gateyger, Curt |
Swiss member of the Independent Committee of Eminent Persons |
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Gerstel, Linda |
lawyer representing plaintiffs against European insurers |
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Grendelmeier, Verena |
member of the Swiss Parliament |
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Haeni, Hanspeter |
Swiss bank ombudsman |
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Haggenmuller, Erwin |
UBS director, economist, suspended over document shredding |
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Harris, David A. |
executive director of American Jewish Committee |
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Hauri, Dr. Kurt |
Chairman, Swiss Federal Banking Commission, Bern |
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Hausfeld, Michael |
lawyer filing class-action suit against Swiss |
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Herschson, MK Avraham |
member Holocaust Humanitarian Fund |
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Hier, Rabbi Marvin |
President of LA based Wiesenthal Center |
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Hirsch, Alain |
Swiss member of the Independent Committee of Eminent Persons |
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Hug, Peter |
historian hired by Swiss government to investigate banks |
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Jacobi, Klaus |
Swiss member of the Independent Committee of Eminent Persons |
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Jagmetti, Carlo |
Swiss Ambassador to US ("wage war") |
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Janner, MP Granville |
British parliamentarian |
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Kent, Roman |
chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors |
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Kleiman, Miriam A. |
researcher |
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Koller, Arnold |
Swiss president 1997 |
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Krayer, Georg |
head of Swiss Bankers Association |
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Kunin, Madeleine May |
US ambassador to Switzerland |
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Landwehr, Dr. |
directed Nazi foreign exchange |
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Lauder, Ronald |
member of the Independent Committee of Eminent Persons |
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Leach, Jim |
Iowa congressman - chairman House Banking Committee |
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Levin, Itamar |
"Globes" reporter who was instrumental in breaking the Swiss Holocaust deposits affair. |
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Lyssy, Thomas |
Swiss Jewish Federation Vice President |
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Matile, Silvia |
Spokeswoman Swiss Bankers Association |
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Meili, Christoph |
security guard at UBS who reported document shredding |
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Mendelsohn, Martin |
Wiesenthal Center's legal counsel |
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Menigiardi, Dr. Peider |
alternate Swiss member of the Independent Committee of Eminent Persons |
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Meyer, Hans |
Swiss National Bank chairman |
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Milton, Sybil |
Holocaust Museum in Washington - member of the Internal Commission of Experts |
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National Archives of the US |
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Neue Zuercher Zeitung |
Zurich daily |
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Office of Strategic Services |
US intelligence agency during WW II |
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Patterson, Robert |
US undersecretary of war in 1944 |
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Perrenoud, Marc |
historian hired by Swiss government to investigate banks |
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Picard, Jacques |
wrote: "Switzerland and the Jews:1933-1945", eminent Swiss-Jewish historian |
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Project Safe Haven |
secret postwar operation |
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Rickman, Gregg |
D'Amato legislative director, investigator |
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Rubin, Seymour J. |
State Department attorney who was chief US negotiator with Swiss after WWII |
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Ruder Finn |
NY public relations firm hired by Swiss government |
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Scheffler, Wolfgang |
German historian |
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Singer, Israel |
secretary general of WJC, alternate member of the Independent Committee of Eminent Persons |
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St. Gallische Kantonalbank, St. Gallen |
one of four banks chosen by the Volcker Committee for the sample group of four banks to test methods of tracking Holocaust accounts. |
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Steinberg, Elan |
executive director of WJC |
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Studer, Robert |
UBS president |
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Swiss Bank Corporation |
one of the 3 largest Swiss Banks. one of four banks chosen by the Volcker Committee for the sample group of four banks to test methods of tracking Holocaust accounts. |
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Swiss Bankers' Association (SBA) |
head: Georg Krayer |
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Swiss National Bank (SNB) |
Central bank of Switzerland |
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Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) |
one of the 3 largest Swiss Banks |
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum |
Holocaust museum in Washington D.C. |
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Villiger, Kaspar |
Swiss president 1995 |
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Volcker, Paul |
former US Federal Reserve Chairman heads the Independent Committee of Eminent Persons |
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Wiesel, Elie |
refused to serve as Doyen International Chairman of Holocaust Humanitarian Fund |
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William Slaney |
State Department historian, co-author of Eizenstadt report |
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World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) |
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World Jewish Congress (WJC) |
president: Edgar M. Bronfman, executive director: Elan Steinberg, secretary general: Israel Singer |
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Worthley, Christopher |
spokesman for Allianz AG |
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Wuetrich, George |
Blick reporter |
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Ziegler, Jean |
socialist member of the Swiss Parliament, sociologist who wrote "Switzerland: The Awful Truth". |