CLAIMS RESOLUTION TRIBUNAL
In re Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation
Case No. CV96-4849
Certified Award
to Claimant Esther Ursula Caecilie Ron,
also acting on behalf of Ruth Wreschinski
in re Accounts of S. Lewy and Rosa Lewy
Claim Numbers: 210568/ES; 210569/ES
Award Amount: 189,250.00 Swiss Francs
This Certified Award is based upon the claims of Esther Ursula Caecilie Ron, née Windmueller,
(the “Claimant”) to the published accounts of S. Lewy (“Account Owner S. Lewy”) and Rosa
Lewy (“Account Owner Rosa Lewy”) (together the “Account Owners”) at the Zurich branch of
the [REDACTED] (“Bank I”) and to the unpublished accounts of the Account Owners at the
Zurich branch of the [REDACTED] (“Bank II”) (together the “Banks”).1
All awards are published. Where a claimant has not requested confidentiality, as in this case,
only the name of the bank has been redacted.
Information Provided by the Claimant
The Claimant submitted two Claim Forms identifying Account Owner S. Lewy as her maternal
grandfather Simon (Siemon) Lewy, and the Account Owner Rosa Lewy as her maternal
grandfather’s second wife, Rosa Lewy, née Levy. The Claimant stated that Simon Lewy was
born on 22 January 1868 in Dorbian, Russia, and that his first wife was Caecilie Lewy, née
Saenger, who died in 1905. The Claimant further stated that Simon and Caecilie Lewy had two
children: Kaethe Wreschinski, née Lewy, who was born on 21 December 1894, in Danzig, then
Germany (today Poland); and Frieda Windmueller, née Lewy, who was born on 21 October 1902
in Danzig.
The Claimant stated that her grandfather was a watchmaker who resided in Danzig and that he
married Rosa Lewy, née Levy, on 27 November 1909 in Posen, Germany. The Claimant stated
that Rosa Lewy did not have any children. The Claimant indicated that Simon and Rosa Lewy,
1 The CRT notes that, on the February 2001 published list of accounts determined by the Independent Committee of
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