Ronald W. Zweig is an Australian-Israeli historian specializing in Hebrew and Judaic studies, with particular reference to the British Mandate in Palestine.
[1] He is currently the Marilyn and Henry Taub Professor of Israel Studies at New York University (NYU).
The train was carrying gold, diamonds, and wedding rings that the Nazis had stolen from the Hungarian Jewish community.
It was intercepted by the American military before it could reach its destination, and the fate of its contents has been the subject of speculation ever since.
Zweig acted as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice on a related lawsuit—Rosner, et al. v. United States of America—which alleged U.S. military malfeasance.