International Jewish organizations are voicing disappointment over a new Polish law that compensates people whose property was seized under communism, saying it excludes most Polish Holocaust survivors and their heirs, the US News website reports today (October 25, 2017).
The new law requires that claimants be Polish citizens and limits compensation to spouses, children, or grandchildren.
The World Jewish Restitution Organization says those provisions exclude the vast majority of Holocaust survivors and their families, because most Jews left Poland during or after World War II and settled elsewhere.
The Jewish organization also said that because of the Holocaust's toll, the heirs of seized properties are usually nieces or nephews, not direct descendants.
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