Italy began returning a collection of historic books and manuscripts seized by the Nazis to Rome’s Jewish community.The government announced that it will sign an agreement in Rome on May 21 with Russia’s State Library for Foreign Literature to begin the return process. Several thousand items, some of enormous historic value, were taken by the Nazis in 1943 and, it is believed, eventually found their way to the Soviet Union.
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