Holocaust Survivors in Poland Find Restitution Claims ‘Like a Carousel’
Polish Christians said that faced the extraordinary terror of to
"On what basis should Poland decide that those with Jewish ancestors get compensated, whereas Belarussians, Poles, Ukrainians or Crimean Karaites, or Tatars
and Germans — all of whom used to live here before the war — shouldn’t be compensated?" Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the governing party, asked supporters last year.
There are always more documents you need to provide." Poland is the only European Union nation
that has not established formal procedures to resolve claims made by people whose property was seized during the Holocaust, according to a new report by the European Shoah Legacy Institute, based in Prague.
Leslaw Piszewski said that Any legal or natural person, or their heir, is entitled to recover prewar property
unlawfully seized by the Nazi German or the Soviet authorities, or the postwar Communist regime.
Gideon Taylor, the operations chairman of one of the groups, the World Jewish Restitution Organization, said he hoped
the conference would be a "rallying call" before time ran out for survivors, 72 years after the war’s end.