INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON HOLOCAUST ERA INSURANCE CLAIMS:BILL NELSON

From: Congressional Testimony | Date: May 6, 2008 | Copyright information


Congressional Testimony

05-06-2008

Opening Statement of Bill Nelson Senator, United States Committee on Senate
Foreign Relations May 06, 2008 Good afternoon and welcome. Today, the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee is meeting to consider a difficult but extremely
important issue - compensating Holocaust survivors and their heirs for
the value of Holocaustera insurance policies they held before the war but
lost or had stolen from them by the Nazi reg...

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