https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A key meeting venue in the Swiss Federal Palace in Bern was on Monday renamed the ‘Carl Lutz room’ in honour of the diplomat who – together with his colleagues in Budapest – saved tens of thousands of Jews in Hungary from the Nazis in the Second World War. https://www.thelocal.ch/20180213/carl-lutz-swiss-schindler-who-saved-62000-jews-honoured-with-room-in-federal-palace Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:51:10 +0100 carl-lutz-swiss-schindler-who-saved-62000-jews-honoured-with-room-in-federal-palace A Swiss policemen who saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust and ended up being punished for forging their entry documents was honoured by his former force on Friday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140822/swiss-policeman-hailed-for-saving-jews-from-holocaust Fri, 22 Aug 2014 23:02:00 +0200 swiss-policeman-hailed-for-saving-jews-from-holocaust Holocaust survivors and victims' heirs have received $1.24 billion from a Swiss fund set up after a scandal over dormant accounts of Jews killed in the Second World War, a magazine said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130715/swiss-banks-pay-1-24-billion-to-holocaust-victims Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:19:00 +0200 swiss-banks-pay-1-24-billion-to-holocaust-victims Swiss Federal President Ueli Maurer has apologized for his controversial message on Holocaust Remembrance Day at the end of January. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130510/maurer-apologises-for-holocaust-message-gaffe Fri, 10 May 2013 11:05:00 +0200 maurer-apologises-for-holocaust-message-gaffe All of the $1.3 billion Holocaust restitution fund created by Swiss banks in 1998 has been returned to victims, a judge involved in the case said in an interview published on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130124/swiss-banks-wrap-up-payback-to-holocaust-victims Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:57:00 +0100 swiss-banks-wrap-up-payback-to-holocaust-victims