French President Jacques Chirac rejected a plan to auction off Nazi-looted art to benefit Holocaust survivors. Rejecting a proposal made by the World Jewish Congress, Chirac said France would try to identify the individual owners of the more than 2,000 works held by the government since World War II.
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