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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s centric Civic Platform party claimed victory Monday in Poland’s national elections, making Tusk the first Polish prime minister since the fall of Communism to win a second term. While congratulating Mr. Tusk and wishing him well in moving Poland forward, we also want to remind him of his responsibility to the [...]  Poland remains the only country of the former Soviet bloc that still has not passed any Nazi-era property restitution legislation. Its prime minister, Donald Tusk argues that to do so now would bankrupt Poland, and he has pushed off discussions on proposed restitution legislation until after the fall’s parliamentary elections. While we continue to wait on [...] As you read here last week, Croatia is expected to address the issue of property restitution for Nazi victims. The big news this week is the Lithuanian parliament’s approval of compensation for confiscated property. An Austrian museum also settled with the heirs of a Czech art dealer who survived Auschwitz, while resolving another restitution case [...] Eighty percent of the more than 25,000 Jews who called Croatia home before World War II were murdered during the Shoah, leaving behind homes, businesses, and additional property that was claimed by others, including the Croatian government. Arie Bucheister, of the Claims Conference, and David Peleg, director general of the World Jewish Restitution Organization, of [...] President Obama concluded a visit to Poland this week with a visit to the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, a memorial to the prisoners of the Warsaw Ghetto. We are pleased to see that the president took the time to meet with survivors and pay his respects to the memories of the victims of the [...] |
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