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: Ukrainians ask for share of Hungarian Gold Train Treasure
: In May 1945, forces of the American Army seized a train in the town of
: Werfen, Austria containing treasure carried out of Hungary by members
: of the pro-Nazi Hungarian government in an attempt to escape the
: advancing Soviet Army. This train carrying gold, jewelry, art and other
: treasures became known as the Gold Train. Hungarian sources believe
: the fifty-two railroad cars of valuables belonged to Jews, Hungarian
: gentry, and the fascist Hungarian government.
: U.S. military personnel recognized from the beginning that the art and
: cultural property assets of the Gold Train were valuable and impressive
: and could be used in their offices and homes. In addition
: to �requisitions� by U.S. forces, property on the Gold Train was also
: subject to outright theft. In one case, documented in October 1946, two
: suitcases of gold dust disappeared from a United States Army warehouse.
: Fascist Hungary�s army along with their Nazi allies occupied Ukraine,
: committed atrocities and looted property there. Between 1939 and 1945,
: Hungary occupied Ukrainian Transcarpathia, oppressed the Ukrainian
: population and massacred the Jewish population before the Soviet Army
: could liberate the region. The Ukrainian minority in Northern
: Yugoslavia was also harassed by Hungarian occupiers.
: Three organizations representing the interests of Ukrainian and Jewish
: victims of the Second World War, The International Union of Former
: Juvenile Prisoners of Fascism, Ukrainian Union of Nazi Victims and
: Prisoners, and the Organization of Ukrainian Antifascist Resistance
: Fighters have asked the United States government to account for that
: portion of the gold train assets belonging to victims in Ukraine. In a
: recent letter to the organizations� American attorney, Jonathan Levy,
: from the Executive Director of the Presidential Advisory Commission on
: Holocaust Assets in the United States, Kenneth Clothen, it was admitted
: that there is little information about the origin of the gold train and
: that an investigation is ongoing.
: The World Federation of Hungarians has estimated the value of the
: missing treasure as being worth over two hundred million dollars in
: 1945 and worth many more times that in present value.
: Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
: Before you buy.
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