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Nazi loot at Library of Congress?
by WASHINGTON (JTA) -- A U.S. commission is looking into whether the Library of Congress has Nazi-looted books in its collection., "Books came to the Library of Congress after World War II from Europe," said Stu Loeser, the spokesman for the Presidential Advi
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"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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