The three largest Swiss banks agreed to pay up to $10 million to locate needy Holocaust survivors who may be eligible to receive payments from Switzerland’s Holocaust Memorial Fund. After many delays, payments from the fund, to which the banks have contributed some $69 million of the approximately $200 total, began last month.
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