The Los Angeles Times
August  02, 2001

By Henry Weinstein

Bill May Help Beneficiaries Settle Holocaust-Era Claims

"The process is skewed against survivors," said Rep. Henry Waxman, speaking in regards to the few names released by insurance companies the international commission that was set up to help Holocaust survivors and beneficiaries collect on insurance policies.Waxman along with several other Congressional members introduced legislation that would require all insurance companies operating in the U.S. to disclose the names on policies written in Europe between 1933 and 1945.

Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles said that if passed, “the bill will go along way in finally enabling the victims of the Holocaust and their heirs to discover what they are owed.”