US lawmakers press Poland, Lithuania, on Holocaust assets

AFP ^ | Wed Jun 24

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WASHINGTON (AFP) – A group of 25 US lawmakers urged Lithuania and Poland in letters released Wednesday to enact laws this year to address restituting property the Nazis stole during the Holocaust.

Democratic Representative Robert Wexler and 24 colleagues wrote to prime ministers Donald Tusk of Poland and Andrius Kubilius of Lithuania to push for action on the legislation during a June 26-30 conference on Holocaust-era assets to be held in Prague.

"We believe that the Prague Conference may represent the last and best opportunity to resolve outstanding Holocaust-era issues during the lifetime of Holocaust survivors," wrote Wexler.

He urged the US allies "to publicly recommit to introducing, passing, and implementing equitable and fair property restitution legislation" giving those who lost property to the Nazis or subsequent Communist governments "at least a small measure of justice during their lifetimes."

The Florida lawmaker, a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee who chairs the panel's Subcommittee on Europe, will be part of the US delegation to the conference.

[MarkL]

As more and more time goes by, there are fewer and fewer survivors of the Holocaust. I believe that this is more to lay a foundation for "reparations" for slavery, here in the US, using the excuse, "since the US government demanded reparations for the descendants of the victims of the Holocaust, it's only right that the descendants of slaves get reparations as well."

Just watch... It will happen.

Mark

[Leisler]

Our country is going down the tubes at the rate of Trillions per year and these guys are wasting time about some dump cold water apartment fifty years ago?

WTF.

[lodi90]

This is not about chump change at all. For example, the Jews want compensation for a large part of Old Town Vilnius. Tens of Millions of dollars in real estate. That is why Wexler is going on about this. There is a lot money to be made off this issue for them.