Holocaust survivors owed as much as $175 bln: study

[oberliner]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Holocaust survivors are still owed between $115 billion and $175 billion in restitution despite six decades of efforts to return everything the Nazis stole, from their homes to businesses, a new study said on Thursday.

In the last decade, restitution efforts intensified due to the end of the Cold War, as well as public pressure spurred by new reports of the extent of Nazi looting and an uproar over efforts by Swiss banks to conceal victim accounts, said the study's author, international economist Sidney Zabludoff.

The study was prepared for Jerusalem-based Jewish Political Studies Review and made available to Reuters.

"At least $115-$175 billion (at 2005 prices) remains unreturned despite numerous clear and explicit international agreements and country promises made during World War Two and immediately thereafter," the study said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070119/ts_nm/holocaust_study_dc_1

[GeorgeGist]

1. I find it very interesting that,

according to most experts, only Jews survived the holocaust.

[oberliner]

2. What do you mean?

Can you elaborate?

[Behind the Aegis]

3. Which experts are these?

[Coventina]

4. Not true. My former BF's Catholic Polish grandparents survived

a concentration camp.

[Nimrod2005]

5. I wonder how much Palestinians are owed for their land?

:hide:

[burythehatchet]

6. beat me to it

[Behind the Aegis]

7. Which has nothing to do with this thread.

[oberliner]

8. I don't follow

Can you explain what you mean by that?

Are you drawing some parallel between the Palestinians and the Jewish victims of the Holocaust?

[Emit]

9. Is there no parallel?

[oberliner]

10. I do not believe so.

I do not believe that there is a parallel between Israel's treatment of the Palestinians and Nazi Germany's treatment of the Jews.

Just my opinion, of course.