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STOCKHOLM (JTA) — A top Swedish politician is calling on his country's prime minister to set up a historical commission to investigate revelations that more than 250 Swedes were members of the Nazi SS.

The comments by Alf Svensson, the leader of Sweden's opposition Christian Democratic Party, came after a television documentary this week made the revelation and before Sweden hosts an international conference on the Holocaust later this month.

Switzerland pressed on wartime accounts

BERN (JTA) — Jewish organizations are calling on Switzerland to publish the names of leftover account holders belonging to Nazi officials.

The call comes after a commission headed by former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker found in a report issued last month that nearly 1,700 accounts had connections to Nazis.

Anti-Semitism on rise in Hungary, ADL says

BUDAPEST (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League says Hungary's political leaders are failing to speak out against the recent rise in political anti-Semitism and racism in the country.

A new report issued by the ADL cites "increasingly virulent expressions of anti-Semitism, xenophobia and racism in Hungary, especially among extreme national and far-right politicians," ADL National Director Abraham Foxman said.

The report cites as "one of the most troubling examples" the membership in the Hungarian Parliament of Istvan Csurka, whose newspaper Magyar Forum "promotes conspiracy theories about Jewish plans for world domination."