Jewish Groups Will Demand Stolen Art

Jewish groups said they will use a conference on art and property looted by Nazi Germany to press for the release of what one delegate called the “last prisoners” of World War II. The conference, sponsored by the State Department and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, brings together more than 40 countries and more than a dozen art, history, insurance and Jewish groups hoping to set informal standards for the return of stolen assets. Delegates will deal with material and moral questions from a period during which the Nazis killed 6 million Jews and looted billions of dollars of property.