Living Heirs. [Internet resource] (ID: 32089)
Authorship or Source:
- Tobias, Michael.
- Avotaynu.
- Risk International Services.
- Ancestry.com.
Year:
1999
Title or Main Description:
Living Heirs. [Internet resource]
Type of Work:
HTML document with searchable database
Alternate or Series Title:
Database of unclaimed Swiss bank accounts and other Holocaust-era assets.
Keywords:
- Jewish property --Austria --Sources.
- Jewish property --Switzerland --Sources.
- Jewish property --Czechoslovakia --Sources.
- Confiscations --Austria --Sources.
- Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) --Austria --Sources.
Abstract:
Internet finding aid to various databases of unclaimed Holocaust era assets, including dormant Swiss bank accounts, seized Austrian assets (including banks accounts, insurance policies), the Czech Property Confiscation Listings, which also features links to other genealogical and Holocaust-related Internet sites.
Language and Other Notes:
- "Living Heirs is a cooperative effort by three independent organizations -- Avotaynu, a Jewish genealogy publishing service, Risk International Services, Inc., an insurance archaeology and claim recovery firm, and Ancestry.com, a family history Internet and publishing company -- the Living Heirs Project helps heirs of Holocaust victims recover family assets unjustly confiscated by the Third Reich. These groups are brought together by Rafael Guber, Genealogy Consultant to the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance."--http://www.livingheirs.com/
- PLEASE NOTE: This website as described was no longer accessible as of 24 January 2006 at http://www.livingheirs.com/. However, an apparently comparable mirror website at http://www.avotaynu.com/HolocaustList/newversion.htm appears to remain active.
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