French insurer AXA will let the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem examine whether any of more than 650,000 policies sold from 1933 to 1945 belonged to Jews who perished in the Holocaust, according to the World Jewish Congress. The WJC said AXA’s move would help restitution by “significantly” adding “to the database of unpaid Holocaust-era policies.”
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