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The Swiss Banks Holocaust Settlement claims program is now closed, and this website is no longer being updated. It remains online through the assistance of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This program was operated by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, beginning with the class action lawsuits filed in 1996 and completed with the last distributions to claimants in 2020. This website contains information about the Swiss Banks Holocaust litigation, settlement and distribution process, the Special Masters’ filings including the proposed Distribution Plan and the Final Report, as well as links to the Court’s decisions and other relevant filings and materials.
- Special Master's Proposed Plan of Allocation and Distribution of Settlement Proceeds, September 11, 2000
- Special Master's Cover letter
- Short form notice of plan
- Summary of Proposal
- Proposal
- Table of Contents: Volumes I and II (PDF, 10K)
- Volume I: Proposed Plan of Allocation Text (PDF, 655K)
- Volume I: Exhibit I -- Settlement Agreement, etc. (PDF, 5174K)
- Volume I: Exhibit 2 -- Order Approving Settlement Agreement (PDF, 4167K)
- Volume I: Exhibit 3 -- Geographic Distribution of Initial Questionnaires (PDF, 86K)
- Volume I: Exhibit 4 -- Letter from International Office of Migration (PDF, 660K)
- Volume I: Exhibit 5 -- Proposed Rules of Claims Resolution Tribunal (PDF, 1028K)
- Volume I: Exhibit 6 -- Hesed Questionnaire, etc. (PDF, 574K)
- Volume I: Annex A -- Summary of Allocation Proposals (PDF, 117K)
- Volume I: Annex B -- Legal Principles (PDF, 79K)
- Volume I: Annex C -- Demographics (PDF, 114K)
- Volume I: Annex C/Exhibit 1 -- Initial Questionnaire Data (PDF, 667K)
- Volume I: Annex C/Exhibit 2 -- Swiss Humanitarian Fund (PDF, 334K)
- Volume I: Annex C/Exhibit 3 -- Initial Questionnaire Summary Chart (PDF, 195K)
- Volume I: Annex D -- Heirs (PDF, 98K)
- Volume II: Annex E -- Holocaust Compensation (PDF, 444K)
- Volume II: Annex E -- Attachment -- Compensation Chart (PDF, 1048K)
- Volume II: Annex F -- Social Safety Nets (PDF, 68K)
- Volume II: Annex G -- The Looted Assets Class (PDF, 220K)
- Volume II: Annex H -- Slave Labor Class I (PDF, 184K)
- Volume II: Annex H/Exhibit 1 -- Slave Labor Class List (PDF, 168K)
- Volume II: Annex I -- Slave Labor Class II (PDF, 28K)
- Volume II; Annex I/Exhibit 1 -- Companies Seeking Release (PDF, 91K)
- Volume II: Annex I/Exhibit 2 -- National Swiss Agency Report (PDF, 38K)
- Volume II: Annex J -- The Refugee Class (PDF, 133K)
- Volume II: Annex K - Swiss Humanitarian Fund (PDF, 98K)
- Volume II: Annex K/Exhibit 1 -- Payments to Jewish Beneficiaries (PDF, 34K)
- Volume II: Annex K/Exhibit 2 -- Payments to Non-Jewish Beneficiaries (PDF, 27K)
- Selected Bibliography (PDF, 162K)
- Statement from Professor Burt Neuborne, Lead Settlement Class Counsel (PDF, 234K)
- Order Adopting Special Master's Proposal ("Distribution Plan"), November 22, 2000
- Order Appointing CRT Special Masters Volcker and Bradfield, December 8, 2000
- List of 21,000 Accounts (Accounts Deemed "Probably" Belonging to Holocaust Victims), published February 5, 2001
- CRT Rules (adopted February 5, 2001; as updated March 22, 2003)
- Order of United States Court of Appeals upholding Distribution Plan, July 26, 2001