Holocaust survivors, US settle claims Army stole Jewish riches
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The US government and Hungarian Holocaust survivors announced Monday they have settled claims that the Army wasted and pillaged family treasures that were seized by Nazis and loaded onto a train in the waning days of World War II.
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A federal judge on Tuesday approved a settlement involving Holocaust victims, their relatives and an Italian insurance company that ends a lawsuit brought a decade ago.
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Britain LONDON -- US-led forces, using Iraq's ancient city of Babylon as a military base, have caused "substantial damage" to one of the world's most renowned archeological treasures, a British Museum report said. The report, quoted in today's Guardian newspaper, said US and Polish military vehicles had crushed 2,600-year-old pavements in the city, a cradle of civilization and home to ...
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Israel's Six Day War offered American Jews a refuge from the social traumas of the 1960s. How the conflict reshaped the community.
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Ivory statues, Buddhist carvings, gold coins and thousands of other precious objects from the Kabul Museum feared stolen or destroyed under Soviet occupation and Taliban rule have been found, an American archaeologist has said.
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The U.S. government has agreed to settle a lawsuit with tens of thousands of Hungarian Holocaust survivors over a trainload of gold, jewelry and other property seized by the U.S. Army at the end of World War II, lawyers said on Monday.
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The US government has agreed to settle a lawsuit with tens of thousands of Hungarian Holocaust survivors over a trainload of gold, jewellery and other property seized
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Israeli forces retrieved the bodies on Friday of two sailors declared missing off the coast of Haifa after an Israeli freighter sank following a collision with a Cypriot cruise ship, the army said.
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MIAMI There&#39;s word of a tentative settlement in a case brought by Holocaust survivors against the US government for the plundering of a Nazi gold train in World War Two.
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Israeli prosecutors charged four antiquities dealers with forging a slew of biblical artefacts including a &quot;Jesus box&quot; that had been claimed as proof of Christianity&#39;s origins.
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JERUSALEM -- The Israeli government and several banks hold assets belonging to Holocaust victims worth more than $200 million, according a parliamentary report released yesterday that harshly criticized authorities for not doing enough to locate the accounts' owners.
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Two American Christian volunteers say they were beaten and robbed by masked Jewish settlers.
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Public access to millions of Nazi war documents, kept in closed archives for 60 years, could help Holocaust survivors win larger claims for restitution, survivors groups say.
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JERUSALEM - Israel obtained a two-decade-old letter written in captivity by its most famous missing soldier as part of a recent exchange with the Hezbollah guerrilla group, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said yesterday.
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State officials announced yesterday that more than 60 banks will waive the international wire transfer fee for Holocaust survivors receiving reparations or restitution payments.
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The US government settles a lawsuit with Hungarian Jews over valuables stolen by the Nazis and kept by the US Army in 1945.
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Thousands of offspring of Nazi Holocaust survivors in Israel are seeking reparations from Germany to pay for psychiatric treatment they say they require as a result of trauma suffered by their parents.