Sadly, there are fewer and fewer survivors, but countries should know that their rights and their claims will not go away,” Abraham Biderman, co-chairman of the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO), told Hamodia. “This sends a strong signal that we are not giving up. If passed, the Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today (JUST) Act, as the bill is known, would require the State Department to report on the progress of relevant nations on restitution of property that was “wrongfully seized or transferred” by the Nazis and their accomplices or by subsequent communist regimes.
(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)Ī bi-partisan bill aimed at pushing European countries to step up their efforts in returning property to Holocaust survivors and their families was introduced in both houses of Congress last week. The World Jewish Restitution Organization, a group that helps Holocaust survivors claim lost prewar properties, launched a database aimed at helping more than 2,000 Holocaust survivors or their heirs regain property lost in Warsaw due to World War II and communism. The Nozyk Synagogue, a remnant of Warsaw’s old Jewish quarter.
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