Research Catalog

Title

Closing the books : Jewish insurance claims from the Holocaust / Charles Weiss ; foreword by Abraham Foxman.

Author

Weiss, Charles (Charles B.), 1928-

Publication

New York, NY : Enigma Books, [2008], ©2008.

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Details

Description

xxii, 310 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"A growing number of recent studies have attempted to set the record straight about the Holocaust, the most horrendous atrocity in modern history. First the Swiss banks were accused of silently hoarding countless millions of dollars that belonged to Jews who had perished in Nazi extermination camps. Under pressure the banks agreed to pay up, handing more than one billion dollars to heirs of depositors and to humanitarian causes related to the Holocaust." "German corporations and banks that had profited from hundreds of thousands of slave and forced laborers then came under scrutiny. Germany established a Foundation with up to five billion dollars, for "Remembrance, Responsibility and the Future," to settle all claims." "Life insurance policies that were never redeemed because the policyholders and the beneficiaries had simply vanished also came under scrutiny. The response was the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims, or ICHEIC as it is known, with the mission of soliciting claims from the public worldwide and paying them off. It ended its work in March 2007, and this is its story."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Banks and banking > Corrupt practices > Switzerland > History > 20th century
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Reparations
• World War, 1939-1945 > Confiscations and contributions > Europe
• Jews > Europe > Claims > History > 20th century
• Jewish property > Europe > History > 20th century
• Holocaust survivors > Economic aspects
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Economic aspects
• International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims
• World War, 1939-1945 > Europe > Claims

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I. The Swiss banks -- II. German reparations for victims of the Nazis -- III. Fertile ground -- IV. The Jews and insurance -- V. The "accusation" -- VI. The International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims -- VII. Conclusion -- VIII. Epilogue -- App. I. Memorandum of understanding -- App. II. German-American executive agreement -- App. III. Joint statement -- App. IV. Trilateral agreement.

ISBN

• 9781929631834
• 1929631839

LCCN

40016222898

OCLC

• ocn216936926
• 216936926
• SCSB-5448947

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries