In a deal close to approval, Swiss banks would pay $1.25 billion to non-Jewish Holocaust victims, including Romani (Gypsies), the disabled, Jehovah's Witnesses and gays. The Swiss settlement would exclude those oppressed because of nationality or politics. Notably, it would give no money to non-Jewish Polish slave laborers used by Swiss-financed companies. "I don't get the distinctions here," complains a former U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum historian. "It may be good law, but it's incomplete history."
November 29, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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In a deal close to approval, Swiss banks would pay $1.25 billion to Holocaust victims, who include Romani (Gypsies), the disabled, Jehovah’s Witnesses and gays.
“There was a sense it would be morally wrong to suggest that only the Jews suffered,” says Burt Neuborne, the lead settlement counsel.
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