Belgian officials agreed to pay about $55 million to the nation’s Jewish community for property stolen or abandoned during the Nazi occupation. “It’s a good day for our country,” Philippe Markiewicz of the Coordination Committee of Jewish Organizations in Belgium told The Associated Press.
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