Poland’s parliament passed a law on Wednesday that would prevent former Polish property owners, including Holocaust survivors and their descendants, from regaining property expropriated by the country’s communist regime. It affects Jewish and non-Jewish owners who had properties seized in the communist era. Some cases have made their way through the courts, but Poland has never passed a comprehensive law that would regulate restituting or compensating seized properties. “The anti-restitution law restricting property claims by victims of the Holocaust is a daylight robbery that desecrates the memory of the Holocaust,” he said. He urged Duda to not sign the bill into law or to refer it to Poland’s constitutional tribunal.

Source: Indian Express August 11, 2021 21:22 UTC