U.S. officials applauded an announcement by Russia that it would work to return art looted by the Nazis to Holocaust survivors or their heirs. Undersecretary of State Stuart Eizenstat said the move by Russia, which agreed to a U.S.- proposed set of principles to guide the restitution process, was a “breakthrough.” The announcement came during a four-day conference in Washington on Nazi-looted art. On a related front, the United States on Wednesday urged European nations to return Jewish communal property, including synagogues, schools, cemeteries, community centers and artifacts, seized by the Nazis and appropriated by Communist governments following World War II.
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