“They are working cooperatively with us. They know their collection better than anybody else.”

Asked if the commission knows whether books looted from Jewish victims are in the library’s collection, Loeser said, “Part of the resolution will be a definitive statement about this.” The questions being pursued include whether any of those books held at the library are from Holocaust victims and whether ownership of the books can be traced.

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