mardi 8 juillet 2008

Where's the money? Breakdown of assets held by Holocaust restitution company

Haaretz Last update - 06:45 08/07/2008

Assets belonging to Jewish Holocaust victims that have been transferred to the company:
-Custodian General:NIS 176 million in real estate, NIS 72 million in bank accounts
-Jewish National Fund: NIS 164 million in real estate, NIS 10 million in securities, NIS 304 million in J.K.T. stocks (Otzar Hityashvut Hayehudim)
-Bank accounts: NIS 20 million Total: NIS 746 million

Michael Eisenbud, of Kiryat Motzkin, requested the withdrawal of funds from an account in the Anglo-Palestine Bank (today Bank Leumi) opened by his father, who was killed in Lithuania in 1941, in 1936. In February he and his brother received NIS 300,000.

66,000 Holocaust victims on the company's list of property owners
6,604 Applications submitted to the company
105 Applications from heirs approved.
About 10 have received money
10,500 Holocaust survivors who received NIS 6,000 allocation each

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