[Cz-L] List of Holocaust victims' assets in Israel------------- IMPORTANT

Apr 28 2007

Bill: Additional aid for Holocaust survivors by Ynet (Yediot Akhronot
group)

Bill initiated by Yedid foundation calls for additional aid of NIS 2,000 =
per
month to survivors whose income falls short of NIS 4,000
Yael Branovsky

Knesset Members Colette Avital (Labor) and Zevulun Orlev (National
Union-NRP) will submit a bill to the Knesset calling to institutionalize
further financial aid to Holocaust survivors.
The bill, which was initiated by the Yedid foundation, states that each
survivor whose income falls short of NIS 4,000 a month, will be granted =
a
NIS 2,000 monthly pension from the state.
Currently, some survivors rely on reparations from Germany, others get a =
NIS
1,200 stipend from the state and some – mostly emigrants from the =
former
Soviet Union, are entitled to no aid whatsoever.
Yedid Deputy Director General Ran Melamed told Ynet, "Our bill does not =
aim
at contradicting or replacing other laws, but its message is very =
simple.
Any Holocaust survivor who does not have enough money to support =
himself,
will be given money from the state, no matter where this money comes =
from."
According to MK Avital, the new bill is set to eradicate the gaps =
between
Holocaust survivors, and see to it that they each get equal payments =
from
the state.

 
Jun 20 2007


List of Holocaust victims' assets published on net by Ynet (Yediot
Akhronot group)
Relatives of people who perished in Holocaust can claim assets, accounts
belonging to victims
Yael Branovsky


The society for restituting property belonging to victims of the =
Holocaust
published Wednesday a list of 3,500 bank accounts and real estate =
properties
located in Israel, worth over NIS 100 million ($25 million), that belong =
to
Holocaust victims.
The list was published on the internet site www.hashava.org.il. =
Relatives of
the victims can examine the list to locate assets that legally belong to
them.  
The society has declared that this is only an initial list that includes
assets that were under guardianship of the General Custodian, the Jewish
National Fund and a list of bank accounts that was published at the =
Knesset.

Descendants of the owners of assets that do not appear on the list can
submit a request to a service center formed for this purpose.
The society's manager, Yishai Amrami, who also served as =
director-general of
Yad Vashem – the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, =
said:
"The society is facing a complicated and challenging task of =
reconstructing
events that occurred many decades ago.
"The goal of our society is to locate property that belonged to those =
who
perished in the Shoah and to find their legal heirs in as short a time =
as
possible. During the last few months, the society has been set up so =
that
the public can contact it as conveniently as possible, and we tried to =
make
the procedures as simple and straightforward as possible," he added.
The society was given the mandate by the law of restitution of Holocaust
victims' assets to do anything required in order to restitute all the =
assets
in Israel to the owners' heirs and rightful owners. The law was =
legislated
by the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee for the Location and Restitution =
of
Assets of Holocaust Victims, headed by MK Colette Avital.
"I am delighted that all the hard work producing results in the form of =
the
society, whose goal is to create historical justice and return property =
to
holocaust victim's heirs," said Avital to Ynet.
"I wish, from the bottom of my heart, great success to the members of =
the
society in finding the heirs as soon possible and fulfilling all of the
tasks it was established for. This will be their contribution to =
correcting
a historical wrongdoing that was caused to all of their victims and
descendents," she said.
 
Best regards,

Marc Goldberger
 
Researching:
 
GOLDBERGER & TAU - Siret, Czernowitz,

TAU & SONNENREICH - Zablotow

SLOVIS, SLUVIS - Berdichev,

ZLOTNIK - Kamenets Podolskiy
 
  
Received on 2007-06-20 18:46:06