Reuters in Miami
Tuesday December 21, 2004
The Guardian
The US has agreed to settle a lawsuit with tens of thousands of Hungarian Holocaust survivors over a trainload of gold, jewellery and other property seized by the American army at the end of the second world war, lawyers said yesterday.
The agreement over 24 freight vans filled with $200m worth of art and household goods stolen by the Nazis and then confiscated by the US still has to be worked out, lawyer Sam Dubbin told a Miami court.
Government documents said property was requisitioned by army officers to furnish homes, was sold, or kept as trinkets.
"This money won't bring back my parents, my loved ones. I don't care if I get one dollar or $100,000, I just want closure," said Jack Rubin, 76.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,14058,1377812,00.html
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