The Italian Ministry for interior has asked the Union of Italian Jewish Communities to help in the search for rightful owners of jewelry and other valuables worth several millions of lira which were recently found in a branch of the Bank of Rome. The valuables were stolen from Jewish and other victims of the Nazis.
Under Italian law property taken from Nazi victims is returned to rightful heirs up to sixth degree relatives. If such heirs are not found the property reverts to the state which, however, has renounced it in favor of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities.
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