The first payments to needy U.S. Holocaust survivors from a Swiss humanitarian fund are scheduled to be made Friday, according to Jewish sources involved with the fund’s distribution. Some 60,000 survivors are expected to receive about $500 each, bringing the worldwide number of beneficiaries of the Swiss fund to 110,000. The nearly $200 million fund, set up in 1997 by Swiss banks and other companies to benefit needy Holocaust survivors, is separate from the $1.25 billion settlement that leading Swiss banks reached last year to end Holocaust- era claims against them.
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