European Jewry lost as much as $320 billion in the Holocaust, an Israeli government report found. The precedent-setting study, issued this week, determined that in terms of confiscated properties and unpaid income for slave labor, Jews persecuted by the Nazis lost between $230 billion and $320 billion, adjusted for 1997 rates of inflation.
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