Yvonne Stein Receives Close To A Million

"When my mother died, we cleaned the house and I found some papers that looked very funny," said Yvonne, who does not want her real name used.  The mysterious looking documents, found by chance, could only be read when held up against a mirror.
"They were photographed in a mirror, black paper and white letters," Yvonne said of the papers.

A hidden message said she was due $2,000,000 pounds!

 

Trading With The Enemy

The British government seized the bank accounts of Nazi collaborators.

Her Grandfather Was A Collaborator

Yvonne's grandfather was a successful Jewish businessman living in Eastern Europe and before war broke out, he had stowed much of his money in British banks.

While he survived the war and later emigrated, he, like many Holocaust survivors, never recovered his savings.

Wartime trading-with-the-enemy laws meant the property belonging to anyone living in an enemy country was confiscated and would not be given back.

Who Set This Up?

Lord Archer of Sandwell, chairman of the Epcap, said the panel went out of its way to compensate the families of Holocaust victims and even extended its own mandate from 1999 to 2004, when it officially ended.

"We bent over backwards to allow claims," he said. So far £121,888,000 has been paid.

A Alleged Pedophile

Greville Janner, Lord Janner of Braunstone who campaigned for the scheme to be set up in the first place, said the reparations paid by UK taxpayers are a matter of justice.

English Jews In WW2

Very few ever served, other than the quartermaster corp. Most sat out the war in the English country side under religious exemptions.

British Casualties

In WW-2 there were 382,600 British soldiers killed.