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	Swiss Bank's Discarded Files Saved by Night Watchman
		Meili said that as soon as he got a close look at the documents, he became convinced he had been handed a historic duty to act.
		The documents that Meili rescued are in the hands of the the police, and are not being shown to the public.
		Meili said his father, owner of a small technology company, was also against the idea of going public but could not dissuade him.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/Holocaust/swiss-shredding.html (934 words)

	Integrity of Holocaust whistleblower targeted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Meili, who fled to the United States with his family last year, said he received death threats in Switzerland and feared for his life and that of his wife and two children.
		Meili's lawyer, Edward Fagan, said he and his client were aware of the latest accusations and said they would make "a strong response" later this week.
		Meili has claimed he was "led by God" into the shredder room at the bank, even though it was outside the area he was supposed to patrol for the security firm Wache AG.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/98/01/20/swissbanks-nazis.2-0.html (454 words)

	DoorWays Sermons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Christoph Meili's moment of truth came on January 8, 1997, at Union Bank of Switzerland, the country's largest bank.
		Meili was lionized as the "document hero," and besieged by television crews from as far away as Australia.
		Christoph Meili's decision resulted in loss to the banks, but gain to their victims.
	thequiethour.org /cgi-bin/pastsrmns/printsermons01.cgi?date=6/17/2001 (1465 words)

	B'nai Horin - Children of Freedom
		Meili was harrassed, threatened and essentially chased out of Switzerland, but he was received in the Luxe Hotel banquet room with gasps of awe and a standing ovation.
		Christoph, who describes himself as a born-again Christian, wearing his own kippah, along with Giuseppina and the kids, seemed to enjoy the B'nai Horin seder, singing and dancing, and each taking a turn reading a passage from the haggadah.
		Christoph's courageous act of defiance and conviction led billions of dollars out of the "mitzrayim" of the Swiss and into the "promised" hands of the beneficiaries of Holocaust victims and appropriate Jewish organizations.
	www.bnaihorin.com /200007.html (989 words)

	j. - Fame and fortune fleeting for ex-Swiss bank guard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Christoph Meili acknowledges the altercation but says the supposed threats of physical harm were based on a misunderstanding.
		During a recent phone interview, Meili said he was unhappy about the separation, a situation compounded by a lack of friends and a breakup with a new girlfriend.
		Christoph Meili says that much of his resentment is directed against what he perceives as promises of financial compensations that have never materialized.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/17567/edition_id/348/format/html/displaystory.html (865 words)

	Guest Features - GantsehMegillah.com
		Less than five years ago, a young Swiss night watchman named Christoph Meili garnered international acclaim when he discovered a trove full of documents headed for the shredder at Zurich's Union Bank of Switzerland.
		Meili, a non-Jew, saved the documents from destruction and passed them along to Jewish organizations, thereby forcing the Swiss banking system to come clean with regard to its handling of Holocaust assets.
		Meili lost his job, was vilified in the Swiss press as a traitor, and was eventually forced to move to the United States.
	www.pass.to /tgmegillah/printfeatures.asp?id=55 (774 words)

	The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles
		Christoph Meili was living as an average guy when he did an extraordinary thing and suddenly found himself idolized as a superhero.
		During a recent phone interview, Meili said he was unhappy about the separation from his wife and two children, compounded by a lack of friends and a breakup with a new girlfriend.
		Meili, who in a lengthy phone interview comes across as an intelligent and pained man, says that much of his resentment is directed against what he perceives as promises of large financial compensations that have never materialized.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/preview.php?id=8092 (1505 words)

	Swiss guard who saved files sues bank
		Meili was fired by the private security firm he worked for and said his life was threatened for what he did last January at Union Bank of Switzerland.
		Meili also said the persecution he's suffered has scared Swiss citizens from speaking out if they have information that banks have destroyed other documents that could help Holocaust victims get back money they deposited in Swiss banks.
		The Meilis are concerned that Swiss citizens may ultimately have to bear the cost of judgments against Swiss banks by Jewish Holocaust victims and heirs.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/business/98/01/18/swissbanks.1-0.html (487 words)

	Company News On Call
		Meili received both the admiration of the worldwide Jewish Community and the ire of the Swiss banking establishment.
		Meili, who is now a Southern California resident, is the first Swiss citizen ever to receive political asylum in the United States." Ironically, 32-year-old Meili insists "I'm no hero.
		Christoph Meili is a model of the simple integrity that, unaided, can change our world.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/05-01-2000/0001206028 (403 words)

	Opening Statement
		While Christoph and his family have been persecuted for his noble deed, it is a disgrace that the bank's archivist who ordered the shredding at UBS, Erwin Haggenmuller, still has his job.
		Christoph Meili should be viewed as a hero, not a criminal.
		Christoph has been unemployed since January and this hardship is taking its toll on this brave young man and his family.
	banking.senate.gov /97_05hrg/050697/members/damato.htm (671 words)

	Honoring a Hero
		Christoph Meili, whose act of extraordinary moral courage has won acclaim but at the cost of a heavy personal price, will be honored by the Jewish community at a May 8 dinner at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
		Meili's defining act occurred in January 1997 when, as a security guard at the Union Bank of Switzerland in Zurich, he discovered and rescued ledgers, about to be shredded, relating to the seizure of accounts and assets belonging to Holocaust victims and other European Jews.
		Meili has not decided on a major and wonders whether even a bachelor's degree will mean much when his finishes.
	www.jewishjournal.com /old/meili.4.28.0.htm (967 words)

	Man who found Swiss papers speaks at OSU - Campus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Meili, a former Swiss bank security guard, lived in Switzerland with his wife, Giuseppina, and two children.
		Upon closer examination, Meili realized the "books" were documents related to the property and assets of Holocaust victims and their heirs.
		Meili and his attorney, Ed Fagan, intend to prove that Swiss banks have been withholding funds from Holocaust victims.
	www.thelantern.com /media/paper333/news/1998/04/21/Campus/Man-Who.Found.Swiss.Papers.Speaks.At.Osu-44413.shtml (371 words)

	Small Times: News about MEMS, Nanotechnology and Microsystems
		When Meili invited the press to a briefing this past summer, presentation were given by experts from EMPA, the Swiss standards and testing research institute; an ethics professors and Meili, who talked about the hype, risks and hysteria surrounding the field.
		Meili said that it is important to avoid what almost happened in a previous controversy over genetically modified corn.
		Meili's goal is to offer his foundation as a "neutral organization to organize a stakeholder platform." That would mean getting researchers, manufacturers, regulators and insurers all together.
	www.smalltimes.com /document_display.cfm?document_id=6643 (710 words)

	NewStandard: 7/29/97
		The bank's statement yesterday said some of the 65 files recovered by guard Christoph Meili concern property sales in the 1930s and '40s, possibly by Jews, but gave few details.
		Meili found the documents in January during a routine check of the shredder room at the bank's Zurich headquarters.
		The bank said yesterday that 47 of the 65 property files salvaged by Meili were related to the period before and during World War II.
	www.s-t.com /daily/07-97/07-29-97/a06wn033.htm (586 words)


		Meili, 29, stumbled upon the documents - which include the addresses and names of the original owners - in the shredding room at the Union Bank of Switzerland in Zurich as he made his rounds in January 1997.
		Meili said Tuesday he expected an apology from the Swiss government for having launched a criminal investigation against him over his violation of Switzerland's strict bank secrecy laws.
		Meili and his family left for the United States, where they are being supported by Jewish organizations until Meili receives a work permit.
	www.recordonline.com /1997/9-16-97/swissver.htm (636 words)

	Ethics Issues for Creators, Managers and Users of Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Meili was made the subject of a criminal investigation for violation of bank secrecy laws and dismissed from his job.
		Meili fled Switzerland with his family in April 1997, stating that he had received threats from neo-Nazi groups in Switzerland.
		Christoph Meili became the first Swiss citizen to be granted political asylum in the United States where he lives today.
	www.mybestdocs.com /barry-r-eth-iss0307-lucas.htm (5055 words)

	Remembering the Holocaust
		Meili was awarded the Janusz Korczak Humanitarian Award for his decision to go against orders and save documents detailing Jewish property seized by the Nazis during World War II.
		Howard Seigel, the president of the Ohio Council on Holocaust Education, presented Meili with the award, which was accompanied by a standing ovation.
		Seigel said Meili was the first Swiss citizen given political asylum by the United States.
	www.stater.kent.edu /stories_old/98spring/042298/n1c.html (531 words)

	Saving History From the Shredder
		Ostracized, facing a criminal investigation, Meili and his wife decided it was time to take their two children and leave for the United States.
		Meili's father's comment about getting a job on Wall Street with the help of Jews proved to be both right and wrong.
		Meili is also concerned about the future of the settlement he set in motion.
	www.thenation.com /docprint.mhtml?i=19990906&s=wiener (2405 words)

	UBS - 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		On January 8th Christoph Meili, an external security guard, finds at UBS in Zurich old documents stemming from the former Federal Bank (Eidgenössische Bank), which UBS took over in 1945.
		Meili, however, hands these documents over to the Jewish Community in Zurich and the highly publicised "Christoph Meili-case" develops.
		Criminal proceedings begin, against the archivist for possible violation of a recent Federal Document Destruction decree and against Meili for possible violation of Banking Secrecy which would be a criminal offence in Switzerland.
	www.ubs.com /1/e/investors/history/1990_2000/1997.html (787 words)

	BCCN: Swiss guard says faith made him save Holocaust records
		Jewish groups had begun demanding an investigation into rumors that Swiss banks were holding billions of dollars deposited for safekeeping before World War II by German Jews who died in the Holocaust before they could reclaim their funds.
		Meili took some of the records with him.
		Meili lost his job and began to receive hate mail.
	www.canadianchristianity.com /cgi-bin/bc.cgi?bc/bccn/0399/swiss (492 words)

	FORWARD : Featherman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Meili two years after he brought to light records showing that the assets of Holocaust victims were sitting in Swiss banks.
		Meili moved to California, where he will attend college this fall; the fees, Mr.
		Meili is described as "an advocate for the survivors in what he sees as a conflict with Jewish organizations, especially the World Jewish Congress." Mr.
	www.forward.com /issues/1999/99.09.03/featherman.html (374 words)

	NewStandard: 1/15/97
		The documents were inside two containers waiting to be shredded when an employee of a private security firm spotted them.
		The security guard, Christoph Meili, said he rescued some of the documents and handed them to Jewish community representatives in Zurich, who then alerted police.
		Meili -- who has been suspended from his job pending the outcome of the investigation -- said he rescued only part of the documents.
	www.s-t.com /daily/01-97/01-15-97/a07wn044.htm (342 words)

	The Nation: Saving History From the Shredder : swiss bank guard christoph meili, no hero at home, now lives in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Saving History From the Shredder : swiss bank guard christoph meili, no hero at home, now lives in california.(Swiss bank guard Christoph Meili became a hero to the Jewish people for saving Holocaust victims records from the shredder)
		They call him "the world's most famous bank guard": Christoph Meili, the former night watchman at the Union Bank of Switzerland in Zurich who in 1997 rescued from the shredder documents that described the property seized from Holocaust victims-records Swiss banks had denied they had.
		Meili was fired and hounded out of Switzerland, but his action paved the way for the $1.2 billion settlement that Swiss banks subsequently agreed to pay Holocaust victims and their heirs.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:57062647&refid=ink_tptd_mag (279 words)

	Meili
		I, Christoph Meili, born on April 21, 1968, domiciled at 38d Steinstrasse, 5406 Rutihof, Switzerland, declare:
		In addition, I have discovered that the documents to be destroyed originated in a time period from which no documents are supposed to be destroyed.
		I, Christoph Meili, affirm, assure and declare that the above declaration is complete and exact according to the best of my knowledge and belief, and that I am aware of the legal consequences of perjury according to the laws of the United States of America.
	banking.senate.gov /97_05hrg/050697/witness/meili.htm (877 words)

	JTA NEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Ex-Swiss bank guard turned Jewish hero Christophe Meili, right, makes an appearance with his wife, Giuseppina, in 1998.
		LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13 (JTA) — Christoph Meili was living as an average guy when he did an extraordinary thing for the Jewish community and suddenly found himself idolized as a superhero.
		But after basking in the community´s adulation, the spotlight ultimately shifted elsewhere — and he had to figure out how to build a new existence in a foreign country.
	www.jta.org /page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=10770&intcategoryid=5 (161 words)

	Opening Statement
		Today, we will also hear for the first time from Christoph Meili.
		Because he did his job, Christoph Meili was fired.
		Because he showed courage and integrity, Christoph Meili was fired.
	www.senate.gov /comm/banking_housing_and_urban_affairs/general/97_05hrg/050697/members/damato.htm (671 words)

	Chronology: Switzerland and the Second World War. Detailed Overview of Events 1997
		Christoph Meili, employed as night watchman of a security firm, reveals the destruction of records of the Union Bank of Switzerland
		The intention of the National Bank of Switzerland to transfer 100 million francs to the Holocaust Fund is undisputed in the Committee for Legal Affairs of the National Council.
		Criminal proceedings against the former security guard Christoph Meili as well as the proceedings against the person responsible for the destruction of documents at the Union Bank of Switzerland, the firm's archivist Erwin Haggenmüller, are dropped.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /genocide/Switzerland1.htm (2444 words)

	97.1151 QO de Dardel Jean-Nils (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Le juge de district zurichois compétent a classé la procédure pénale à l'encontre de Christoph Meili le 24 septembre 1997, à; la suite d'une procédure ordinaire.
		Comme elle l'a déclaré, la police cantonale argovienne a enregistré la plainte de Christoph Meili pour menaces de mort écrites à son encontre.
		Le Conseil fédéral constate que Wache SA, l'employeur de Christoph Meili, s'est vu amené à le licencier, suite aux événements survenus dans la salle de destruction de l'UBS et auxquels Christoph Meili a été impliqué en sa fonction de surveillant.
	www.parlament.ch /afs/data/f/gesch/1997/f_gesch_19971151.htm (519 words)

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