More WW II-Era Account Data Published

NEW YORK -- Records of more than 3,000 World War II-era Swiss bank accounts were published Thursday on the Internet in an effort to return hundreds of millions of dollars to Nazi victims or their descendants.

Survivors and heirs now have six months to file claims to the accounts, opened in the Nazi era at Credit Suisse or UBS AG.

The names were published under a settlement reached last June between the banks and Nazi victims. The banks' refusal to release the records had angered Holocaust survivors and infuriated a federal judge overseeing the case.

"It marks a last chance to repay what is owed, a last chance to repay a debt that goes back over half a century," said Gideon Taylor, executive vice president of the court-appointed tribunal that oversees disbursement of the funds.

The list was posted to the tribunal's Web site, http://www.crt-ii.org, allowing comparison with a list of thousands hoping to recover family assets.

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