A House panel unanimously approved legislation to create a presidential commission to examine Holocaust victims’ assets in the United States. The measure, which has the support of the Clinton administration, has already been approved by the Senate. Meanwhile, U.S. undersecretary of state Stuart Eizenstat told the same House Banking Committee that the State Department and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will co-host a conference on Holocaust-era assets in Washington from Nov. 30 to Dec. 3.
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