I'm not sure who Ed Fagan is but I, and the rest of us, did our work pro bono through the New York University Law School.

Professor Burt Neuborne’s work in holocaust litigation and settlement

For the past six years, Professor Burt Neuborne has been engaged in international human rights litigation designed to provide relief to Holocaust victims. The first case, filed in Federal Court in Brooklyn, was designed to force Swiss banks to account for funds deposited on the eve of the Holocaust by victims of Nazi persecution. The tragic reality of the Holocaust is that most of the depositors perished, along with the information needed to trace the accounts. After the war, the Swiss banks, embarrassed at having transferred many of the accounts to the Nazis, declined to cooperate with the families of victims in seeking to trace the Holocaust-related accounts.
After a period of intense litigation, the Swiss bank case was settled for $1.25 billion. $800 million has been set aside to repay bank deposits. Funds have also been allocated to make modest payments to surviving slave laborers, and to refugees who were denied access to Switzerland. The Court appointed Professor Neuborne to serve as lead settlement counsel in the Swiss bank cases. The NYU Law connection also involves Melvyn I. Weiss, a distinguished alumnus, who was the chief negotiator and one of the driving forces behind the litigation.
Professor Neuborne was also involved in a second set of cases to gain compensation from German companies for persons forced to perform slave labor during WWII. By 1944, more than half the German labor force consisted of involuntary laborers, drawn from concentration camps and from conquered lands. Despite the blatantly unlawful nature of the slavery, German companies had declined to pay compensation to the workers, arguing that it was the responsibility of the German government. The German government declined responsibility, arguing that it was up to the companies to compensate their wartime work force. After 50 years of neglect, over 50 lawsuits were filed against German companies. Professor Neuborne argued the principal cases. At the urging of President Clinton and Chancellor Schroeder, the parties engaged in an unprecedented international negotiation, lasting 18 months and involving private lawyers, corporate executives, government officials and victims’ groups. The negotiations culminated in July, 2000 in the establishment in Berlin of a 10 billion DM German Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and the Future” designed to pay compensation to Holocaust victims. In the first year of its operation, the German Foundation distributed almost 3 billion DM to 600,000 Holocaust survivors.

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