ABSTRACT
The justice of the position that heirless assets should be devoted to the relief of the miseries of persecutees falling in the same category as those who perished and who left these heirless assets can hardly be gainsaid. The Israeli Embassy in Bern suggested to the Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police Affairs, that a joint Israeli-Swiss committee be formed to discuss the heirless asset problem. The Israeli government grew weary of the lack of success on the part of the Jewish groups. Marton Friedman was only one of thousands who sought to get their assets out of the reach of the authorities who made every attempt to gain control of the assets of Europe’s Jews for their own use. This was true for Jews in Romania and was even more so for the Jews of Germany, who had the great misfortune to live directly under the boot of Nazi Germany.
