By KEN MAGUIRE

Associated Press Writer

BOSTON (AP) – A batch of World War II-era bank accounts published recently in Israel is tied to the father of Greta Beer, a Boston resident who spurred a class action lawsuit against Swiss banks in the 1990s.

The account of Beer’s father, Siegfried Deligdisch, was held at Bank Leumi in Israel and is among $212 million in assets of Holocaust victims being held by the Israeli government and several banks.

Beer, however, said the account is unrelated to the Swiss account she’s been seeking for decades, and likely contains very little.

“This has nothing to do with the money he deposited in Switzerland,” the 81-year-old said.

Beer in 2002 received a $100,000 incentive award for her services to relatives of Holocaust victims trying to retrieve funds left in Swiss bank accounts for safekeeping during WWII.

The unclaimed Israeli accounts belong to European Jews who deposited savings in banks in what was then the British mandate of Palestine, according to a parliamentary report released in January. Many of the account holders were among the six million Jews killed in the Nazi genocide, the report said.

Beer suspects her father’s account stems from rental income from a home he once owned in Jerusalem.

“It must be some residue, from rental possibly, but it’s very little,” she said. “The main money was sent to Switzerland.”

The Israeli report came after banks in Switzerland agreed to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars and open their records, after they were accused of hiding and misappropriating Jewish accounts from the war.

The Israeli government holds $135 million while the banks have $79 million, the report said. Of the bank holdings, Bank Leumi, which developed from the pre-state Anglo-Palestine Bank, has $70 million in Holocaust assets, the report said.

Most of the accounts were turned over to the government in the 1960s.

Beer’s father was a Romanian Jewish businessman. He owned a successful textile company but because of political instability in the late 1930s, Beer’s father put the money in what he thought was a safe Swiss bank account. He died in 1940 from a kidney ailment.

Beer wasn’t captured and taken to concentration camps. She was in Hungary when her father died. She fled to Romania.

In 1960, Beer went with her mother to Switzerland to find the money. But like many Jews, they were turned away, told the accounts didn’t exist. She testified before Congress in 1996 as part of her campaign to get access to her father’s account.

Beer has yet to locate her father’s Swiss account.

“It’s my father’s money. It’s to bring to an end what my father has done,” she said.