In late 1996 and early 1997, a series of class action lawsuits were filed in United States District Court against three Swiss banks. The suits alleged that the Swiss banks knowingly retained and concealed assets of Holocaust victims, and collaborated with and aided the Third Reich by accepting and laundering illegally obtained Nazi assets and profits of slave labor.
Before the Holocaust Toman Brod, born in 1929, grew up in a well-to-do assimilated Jewish family in Prague, which he described as βan idyllic cityβ before the war. He never experienced anti-Semitism and had Jews and non-Jews as friends. Toman recalls the delicious food that Anci Kopska, the familyβs cook, prepared, including βsuperbβ bread dumplings, […]
Yvette passed away in December of 2020. Z”l May her memory be for a blessing. At age 92, Yvette Anavi of Plovdiv, Bulgaria is still quite active and talkative, writing a book on Jewish women to add to the several she has already published. And at age 92, she has finally received acknowledgement of her […]
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