Finding on Postwar Swiss Accounts Issued

Money from Swiss bank accounts belonging to Polish Jews who died in the Holocaust was not paid as compensation to Swiss citizens whose assets were seized by the Communists after World War II, the Polish Press Agency said. It quoted the Warsaw Foreign Ministry as saying a special cross-ministry committee reached that initial finding after probing 1949 agreements between Warsaw and Switzerland. Switzerland stands accused by U.S. Sen. Alfonse M. D’Amato (R-N.Y.) of agreeing to give money to Poland from unclaimed bank accounts of Polish citizens as part of an accord on compensating Swiss nationals whose assets were seized in Communist Poland.