Either there's a mistranslation somewhere, or the guy doesn't know his own history.
There were three partitions of Poland in the 18th century, and the Nazis and Soviets split it up again in 1939.
Which would seem to make the process he was complaining about the 5th.
along with 3 million non-Jewish Poles.
Doesn't the guy realise that Poland was one of the few countries that had large VISIBLE Jewish communities? All the easier for the Nutzis to target? And that the largest % of people in the Yad Vashem are Polish?
The authors fails to note that Warsaw was levelled by 1945 and was basically rubble -- if he wants reparations, he should ask the Germans
it doesn't look like Kopycinski owns the property -- Nowolipki street is now even routed differently compared to pre-War. And with the intervening communist years when everyone's private property was stolen
Sherman is correct — 75 years is a different world.