Holocaust Survivors in Poland Find Restitution Claims ‘Like a Carousel’<br />Polish Christians said that faced the extraordinary terror of to<br />"On what basis should Poland decide that those with Jewish ancestors get compensated, whereas Belarussians, Poles, Ukrainians or Crimean Karaites, or Tatars<br />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.<br />There are always more documents you need to provide." Poland is the only European Union nation<br />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.<br />Leslaw Piszewski said that Any legal or natural person, or their heir, is entitled to recover prewar property<br />unlawfully seized by the Nazi German or the Soviet authorities, or the postwar Communist regime.<br />Gideon Taylor, the operations chairman of one of the groups, the World Jewish Restitution Organization, said he hoped<br />the conference would be a "rallying call" before time ran out for survivors, 72 years after the war’s end.
