Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) is calling on the U.S. attorney general to aid Holocaust survivors who lost assets on the “Gold Train.” In a letter to John Ashcroft on Tuesday, Clinton said the Justice Department needed to expedite the process of returning items that had been taken from Hungarian Jews by the Nazis and were seized by U.S. forces in May 1945 on a train in Werfen, Austria.
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