The US Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem will each be given$500,000 to
compile Hungarian Holocaust documents and artifacts.
Globes correspondent 16 Apr 06 12:16
As part of the settlement of the historic "Gold Train" lawsuit, United States
Judge Patricia A. Seitz has approved a plan submitted by plaintiffs' counsel
to provide $500,000 to museums in the US and Israel to establish and compile
an archive of records and artifacts documenting the Gold Train events, as well
as the fate of Hungarian Jews in the Holocaust.
The institutions selected, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington, D.C., and Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes'
Remembrance Authority, will each receive $250,000 for use in compiling and
managing the archive, in accordance with the settlement by the US government
of the "Gold Train" class action lawsuit brought by Hungarian Holocaust
survivors and their heirs.
In ordering the $500,000 allocation for the museums, Judge Seitz relied upon a
plan jointly submitted by counsel for the plaintiff and the United States
government based upon a proposal from a committee of holocaust experts.
Committee members Randolph Braham of New York, Ronald Zweig of Jerusalem, and
Mark Talisman of Washington DC, are eminent historians appointed in the
parties' settlement to select prominent institutions to compile the archive
and make it available for future generations. The committee's report calls for
vigorous efforts to memorialize the history through existing archives in
Hungary, Israel, and the US, obtaining information and documents from
repositories for which access was previously limited, and to declassify
information as necessary.