Excerpt from Restitution of Holocaust Assets: Hearings Before the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, U. S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second Session, February 9, 10, 2000 Let me note first to the witnesses that the Congress is not in session today due to the funeral of the former Speaker Carl Albert, and many Members are in attendance, and for that reason not as many as would otherwise be the case will be attending this hearing. This hearing and tomorrow's hearings are a continuation of the committee's review of efforts of the United States and countries abroad to establish greater accounting and accountability for economic aspects of history's most heinous crime, and belatedly provide a measure of comfort to its victims and their families. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.