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AVOTAYNU

We (http://www.avotaynu.com/) have established a database of Holocaust-era Jewish names.
If you recognize the name of a relative, you or someone in your family may be an heir to unclaimed Holocaust-era assets.
The database comes from two sources. One is the list of unclaimed Swiss bank accounts released by the Swiss government.
They are identified with a Code of "S".
These names usually include the city and country where the account was opened.
The second list comes from a collection at the Austrian State Archives in Vienna.
They are identified with a "A" Code.
The Austrian files include ALL assets, including possible Swiss bank accounts, as well as insurance policies and other holdings. When the Germans occupied Vienna in 1938, they required all Jewish residents to complete a detailed declaration of valuables, including bank accounts, insurance policies, real estate, art, etc. These declarations constitute the files held in the Vienna archives. Our source provides only the given name, family name and date of birth.

List of Porges, Porjes, Porjesz

Here a list of people whose property was confiscated by the occupation authorities in the territory of the so-called Protectorate. It is a copy of what was retrieved from both Gestapo and the Central Association for Private Insurance in the Protectorate documents, which were sent to insurance companies during the 1940-1944 period.

The insurance companies were obliged to report back to the Property Office, or the Gestapo, concerning insurance policies of people who were on the list. In the case of life insurance, policies were confiscated and their cash value was transferred to occupation authorities.

According to our findings the list is not complete.

We know that quite a large group of people is missing - mainly those whose property was confiscated by the Office for Jewish Emigration. This computerized version of the list is one of the results of the group working on holocaust-era insurance, which has been wirking on it since May 1998.

A list of people whose property was confiscated by the occupation authorities in the territory of the so-called Protectorate.