Europe’s Jewish communities want a voice in the restitution of Holocaust-era assets, the board of the European Council of Jewish Communities resolved at a meeting Sunday in Riga, Latvia. In particular, the council said it wants to participate in lawsuits and negotiations over slave labor, bank assets, insurance claims, and looted art and property.
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