Germany’s largest insurance firm agreed to allow access to 150,000 key files containing “thousands” of unpaid life insurance policies of Holocaust victims, according to Elan Steinberg, the executive director of the World Jewish Congress. Steinberg said Thursday the files include more than 1,000 policies that were paid to the Nazis instead of Holocaust victims. Allianz is the last of five major European insurers to allow access to its files.
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