Hungarian Jewish leaders met U.S. officials in Budapest to request the return of property looted from Hungarian Jews by American forces at the end of World War II. “We at least must save the valuable assets of the 600,000 martyrs that were killed,” the leader of Hungary’s Jewish community, Peter Tordai, said Wednesday. “It is our moral obligation.” The request came after a U.S. presidential commission said last week that in May 1945, American soldiers took the property, originally looted from Hungarian Jews by the Nazis.
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