U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright opened a conference as representatives of some 44 nations gathered in Washington for an international conference examining the fate of Holocaust-era assets. Her remarks were believed to be her most extensive public comments about her Jewish lineage following her discovery last year that her Czech grandparents and other relatives died in the Holocaust. The State Department and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum convened the four-day conference to focus on a range of assets not covered by last year’s London conference on Nazi gold — namely, looted art works and unpaid life and property insurance claims.
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