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Inside a Class Action: The Holocaust and the Swiss Banks
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Inside a Class Action: The Holocaust and the Swiss Banks Hardback - 2003 - 1st Edition

by Jane Schapiro

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On October 21, 1996, attorney Michael Hausfeld, with a team of lawyers, filed a class-action complaint against Union Bank of Switzerland, Swiss Bank Corporation, and Credit Suisse on behalf of Holocaust victims. The suit accused the banks of, among other things, acting as the chief financiers for Nazi Germany. Hausfeld wanted to use the suit to prove that the banks not only concealed and refused to return millions of dollars in dormant accounts, but that they acted as a conduit for looted assets and slave labor profits. Such behavior, he charged, violated the code of ethics known as customary international law. On August 12, 1998, the plaintiffs and banks reached a $1.25 billion settlement.
Through interviews with a wide range of people involved in the case and detailed research of documents and court transcripts, Jane Schapiro shows the ways that egos, personalities, and values clash in such a complex and emotionally charged case. Inside a Class Action provides an insider's view of a major lawsuit from its inception to its conclusion, which will appeal to anyone interested in human rights, reparations, and international law.

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  • Title Inside a Class Action: The Holocaust and the Swiss Banks
  • Author Jane Schapiro
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Wisconsin Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2003-10
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780299193300 / 0299193306
  • Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.42 x 6.1 x 0.93 in (23.93 x 15.49 x 2.36 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1990's
    • Cultural Region: Central Europe
    • Topical: Holocaust
  • Category Legal Reference / Law Profession
  • Library of Congress subjects Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Trials - New York (State) - New York
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003005663
  • Dewey Decimal Code 347.735

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  • Library Journal, 10/15/2003, Page 0
  • Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/2004, Page 33

About the author

Jane Schapiro is a freelance writer who lives near Washington, D.C. She is the author of a volume of poetry, Tapping This Stone, and her work has appeared in such publications as the Christian Science Monitor, Women's Review of Books, Gettysburg Review, and American Scholar.

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