Interest payments will substantially boost the size of dormant Holocaust-era bank accounts that survivors and their heirs are seeking from Swiss banks, according to Paul Volcker, the head of a commission probing the whereabouts of the dormant accounts. He told a conference on Holocaust issues in New York that his commission hoped to finish the process of locating and returning dormant accounts by the end of the year.
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