Groups representing Polish Americans are challenging a $1.25 billion settlement Swiss banks reached last year to compensate Holocaust victims. The Polish American Defense Committee and the Polish American Congress reportedly filed a motion in federal court charging that the settlement excludes non-Jewish Poles. Switzerland’s two largest banks agreed in August 1998 to pay the $1.25 billion to settle Holocaust-era claims.
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