The plot thickens, as they say in the movies.
59 US senators protest Polands Holocaust restitution bill
This is dated 27 March 2018
Proposal would discriminate against virtually all American survivors and heirs on the basis that they are not currently citizens of Poland, lawmakers saySo now we see this didn't just happen all of a sudden. Our "Sense of Congress" appears to have been in response to Polish legislation. What's your take on this?Restitution experts estimate that following the Holocaust, Jewish individuals and institutions in Poland lost property with a combined value exceeding $1 billion. Poland does not have laws for restitution for privately owned property. It passed a law on communal property in 1997 and has returned some of it, but thousands of claims in that category have gone unaddressed.