BANKERS ADMIT 6 LIKELY NAZIS; JEWISH LEADERS WANT MONEY IN THOSE ACCOUNTS TO GO TO HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS.Byline: Luz Villarreal Daily News Staff Writer Swiss bankers acknowledged Thursday that six people who deposited money with them as World War II broke out likely were not Holocaust victims While victims of the Holocaust were primarily Jews, the Nazis also persecuted and often killed millions of members of other groups they considered inferior, undesirable or dangerous. but elite Nazis, including Hitler's personal photographer. The Simon Wiesenthal Center  This article is currently semi-protected to prevent sock puppets of currently blocked or banned users from editing it. in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. made the discovery Wednesday when it compared nearly 2,000 newly released names of account holders with those of Nazi war criminals. On Thursday, the center reported it found two more matches. Six of the eight are believed to be dead. The whereabouts of two are unknown, said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Wiesenthal Center. ``We do think that there is a possibility that they correspond to names on the list,'' a spokesman for the Swiss Bankers Association The Swiss Bankers Association is a professional organization of Swiss financial institutions. Background The trade association known as the Swiss Bankers Association was founded in 1912 in Basel, Switzerland. told the Wiesenthal Center on Thursday. The matter is being referred to the Swiss Federal Banking Commission and the Swiss government, the association reported. Michael Freitag, a spokesman for the Swiss Bankers Association in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , said the money in the accounts could be turned over to charity. ``Nothing has been determined yet,'' Freitag said. ``If it is clear these assets were illegally obtained, the money will not be turned over to those claiming it.'' In newspapers around the world, the Swiss bankers published a list Wednesday of 1,872 names of World War II depositors whose accounts are long dormant. The bankers said they hope to find Holocaust survivors There are many famous Holocaust survivors who survived the Nazi genocides in Europe and went on to achievements of great fame and notability. Those listed here were, at the very least, residents of the parts of Europe occupied by the Axis powers during World War II who survived and their heirs. The two new matches are: Dr. Vojtech Tuka Vojtech Tuka (July 41880, Štiavnické Bane (at that time "Piarg") - August 201946, executed in Bratislava) was the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic between 1940 and 1945 and one of the most controversial people in Slovak history. , prime minister of Slovakia. Tuka was responsible for the deportation of 71,000 Jews to extermination extermination mass killing of animals or other pests. Implies complete destruction of the species or other group. camps. The Nazis paid him 500 marks for every Jew deported. He was condemned to death but died of natural causes in 1946 before the sentence was executed. Charles Mercier Du Paty De Clam clam, common name for certain bivalve mollusks, especially for marine species that live buried in mud or sand and have valves (the two pieces of the shell) of equal size. , chairman of the Commission on the Jewish Question "On the Jewish Question" (German: "Zur Judenfrage") is an essay by Karl Marx written in autumn 1843. It is one of Marx's first attempts to deal with categories that would later be called the materialist conception of history. in Vichy, France, then under German control. He was in charge of deporting Jews. Wiesenthal officials believe ``De Clam Marquise'' on the list may have been the suspected French Nazi or his wife. The six matches found Wednesday were Heinrich Hofmann, Hitler's photographer; Willi Bauer, an alias used by Eichmann aide Anton Burger; Hermann Eser, former vice president of the German Parliament; Herman Schmitz, chairman of an industrial corporation with factories in concentration camps; Karl Jager, a notorious killer of Lithuanian Jews; and Elizabeth Eder, wife of Ernst Kaltnerbrunner, a prominent Nazi security chief executed at Nuremberg. Hier was pleased by the quick response from the Swiss Bankers Association. ``I'm surprised they had the ability to discount the names immediately,'' he said. ``That tells me they are very concerned.'' The Swiss Bankers Association estimates there is about $42 million in dormant accounts of the 1,872 depositors listed Wednesday. The bankers said the list includes foreign names connected with such wartime accounts. Another list will be published in October with Swiss names and any additional foreign names found. Wiesenthal officials want the money in Nazi accounts to go to the victims of the Holocaust. ``I believe we will find tenfold more money there than in the dormant accounts of the victims,'' Hier said. The list of dormant Swiss accounts is available on the Internet at www.wiesenthal.com. Freitag said the Bankers Association is encouraging people who find their names or those of relatives on the dormant-accounts list to submit a claim by January 1998. ``Our hope is to complete the process within a year and get the money to the people,'' he said. |
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