Washington state’s insurance commissioner urged families of Holocaust victims to use a global computer base to help track down relatives who may have left unclaimed insurance policies dating back to the Holocaust era. The value of such policies could total billions of dollars, Deborah Senn said in Los Angeles at the convention of the Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies. Senn heads a national task force of state insurance commissioners that has been putting pressure on European insurance companies to open their books on Holocaust-era policies.
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