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List of Policyholders Could Aid Fight for Holocaust Insurance.

Publication: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Date: Tuesday, April 29 2003

By Patty Reinert, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 29--WASHINGTON -- Heirs of Holocaust victims, many of whom have spent decades trying to force World War II-era insurers to honor their relatives' life insurance policies, could get some help this week when an international commission publishes a list of more than 350,000 German policyholders.

The list, which includes policyholders who may or may not be Jewish, is to be posted Wednesday on the Web site of the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims, said Dale

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