Swiss banks should allow a database of 4.1 million accounts to be searched for account holders who may have been Holocaust victims, a New York finance official said. Some of the banks, which have allowed 46,000 accounts to be searched, say most of the other accounts were opened by people with Swiss addresses and therefore could not have been opened by Hitler’s victims.
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