Austria has 186,000 books looted by Nazis--WJC

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Austria has 186,000 books looted by Nazis--WJC
By Joan Gralla

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Demonstrating the wide reach of Holocaust restitution
efforts, the World Jewish Congress said Wednesday that Austria's libraries had
186,000 books that the Nazis had stolen from Holocaust victims.

full story at:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000329/en/culture-holocaust_1.html


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