Where is the money from restituted prewar Polish-Jewish properties going?
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Uploaded by fullofcontradictions on Nov 16, 2010
In 1997 the Polish government began returning millions of dollars worth of real estate that belonged to Jewish communal institutions before the Holocaust. These properties are being recovered by the Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Poland. Little is known about this tiny organization which, despite the vast sums it is recovering, has no website nor does it make public any annual reports. Registered as a religious organization it is treated like a church and is not required to provide an accounting of its finances. This piece asks, "Where are the many millions it is recovering really going?" In the absence of transparency all this money just seems to be disappearing. With over 70% of American Jews having ancestors laying in abandoned Jewish cemeteries throughout Poland, shouldn't some of the recovered monies be used for to care for their final resting places? Weren't these ancestors the same ones whose money paid for the recovered properties in the first place?
(For background, see pozsynpro.org/press_pdf/polityka/p_article10_02%5Bus%5D.pdf
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@micidragan
my thoughts exactly.
demonicDEBACLE 3 months ago
Can people of the Brittish Mandate Palestina claim lost property?
micidragan 1 year ago
@micidragan It doesn't look like "jews" are claiming their property, but someone is in their name. But you're right, this isn't going to go well. There was tons of monies given PRIOR to their death in their name collected by "Jewish groups" to relocate German and Polish Jews. They could have left IMO. Someone took the money for other things and it looks like the same people are collecting more, And they call ME an anti-semite! This is outrageous.
TheAmazingamerica 1 year ago
I am afraid that private property claim will fuel real antisemitism in Poland. If jews can claim their lost property, can we as poles claim lost property in Ukraine?
Extending this, germans will ask compensation for lost property in western Poland.
Thank you for asking such important question.
micidragan 1 year ago