The U.S. House Banking Committee is scheduled to hold hearings this week to address the legal status of art objects seized by the Nazis and the insurance claims of Holocaust victims and their heirs. The total value of those assets likely far exceeds the value of the more publicized Holocaust-era dormant Swiss bank accounts and personal gold plundered by the Nazis from death camp victims, according to Elan Steinberg, executive director of the World Jewish Congress.
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