Millions of artworks, religious artefacts, and precious items looted from Jews by the Nazis are yet to be reclaimed according to the government's representative for post-Holocaust issues.
Lord Eric Pickles, who yesterday chaired a meeting of global Holocaust representatives said unless governments "get a grip" on the issue of stolen Jewish items now, in five years it will be "too late" to act.
The international community must make "one last big push" to enforce international agreements on Holocaust-era property restitution now, he added.
Lord Pickles was speaking at the Foreign Office where he hosted the first-ever gathering of international Shoah envoys, and met with diplomats including Ellen Germain, America's special envoy for Holocaust issues, Igor Pokaz, Croatia’s Ambassador to the UK, and Dr Wesley Fisher, director of research of the Claims Conference at the landmark London meeting.
