Jewish mystification of History and new attacks on Catholics and Poland

Jewish mystification of History and new attacks on Catholics and Poland

Pod prąd - Bogusław Wolniewicz 1/4




Jewish mystification of History and new attacks Catholics and Poland

• The New World Order Attacks Poland & Catholicism, an interview with E. Michael
why Poland has to pay for th Hitler and Stalin
Jones and Thomas Herron (October 2006)
http://romancatholicreport.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/NWOPolishShakedown1006.mp3


Israel, the Catholic Church and Anti-Semitism, featuring E. Michael Jones and Israel Shamir (September 2008)
The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and Its Impact on World History, Part I of an interview series with E. Michael Jones (September 2008)

• Libido Dominandi - Lust, Power, and Control, an interview with E. Michael Jones (July 2007)

• The Da Vinci Code Bonanza for Catholic Writers; A Pending Attack on Poland; South Bend Homosexuals; and, The Ravenous New World Order, an interview with E. Michael Jones and Thomas Herron (May 2006)

Spielberg's Munich - The End of the Holocaust Era and an Allegory for the post-9/11 USA, an interview with E. Michael Jones (January 2006)

http://romancatholicreport.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/MunichReview0106.mp3
Agents of Influence, an interview with E. Michael Jones and Thomas Herron (December 2005)
http://romancatholicreport.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/AgentsofInfluence1205.mp3
Nostra Aetate - What It Really Says, an interview with E. Michael Jones (November 2005)
http://romancatholicreport.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/NostraAetate1105.mp3

Church Persecution, an interview with E. Michael Jones and Thomas Herron (October 2005)

• Libido Dominandi - Lust, Power, and Control, an interview with E. Michael Jones (July 2007)



Israeli Firms Accused of Profiting Off Holocaust ( 0) Print This ShareThisBy Jonathan Cook
Counterpunch
Saturday, Jun 27, 2009


Israel’s second largest bank will be forced to defend itself in court in the coming weeks over claims it is withholding tens of millions of dollars in “lost” accounts belonging to Jews who died in the Nazi death camps.

Bank Leumi has denied it holds any such funds despite a parliamentary committee revealing in 2004 that the bank owes at least $75 million to the families of several thousand Holocaust victims.

Analysts said the bank’s role is only the tip of an iceberg in which Israeli companies and state bodies could be found to have withheld billions of dollars invested by Holocaust victims in the country -- dwarfing the high-profile reparations payouts from such European countries as Switzerland.

“All I want is justice,” said David Hillinger, 73, whose grandfather, Aaron, died in Auschwitz, a Nazi camp in Poland. Lawyers are demanding reparations of $100,000 for Bank Leumi accounts held by his father and grandfather.

The allegations against Bank Leumi surfaced more than a decade ago following research by Yossi Katz, an Israeli historian.

He uncovered bank correspondence in the immediate wake of the Second World War in which it cited “commercial secrecy” as grounds for refusing to divulge the names of account holders who had been killed in the Holocaust.

“I was shocked,” said Dr Katz, from Bar Ilan University near Tel Aviv. “My first reaction was: ‘My God, this isn’t Switzerland!’ ”

In 1998, following widespread censure, Swiss banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion in reparations after they there were accused of having profited from the dormant accounts of Holocaust victims.

Dr Katz’s revelations led to the establishment of a parliamentary committee in 2000 to investigate the behaviour of Israel’s banks. Its report came to light belatedly in 2004 after Bank Leumi put pressure on the government to prevent publication.

Investigators found thousands of dormant accounts belonging to Holocaust victims in several banks, though the lion’s share were located at Bank Leumi. Obstructions from Leumi meant many other account holders had probably not been identified, the investigators warned.

The parliamentary committee originally estimated the accounts it had located to be worth more than $160m, using the valuation formula applied to the Swiss banks. But under pressure from Leumi and the government, it later reduced the figure by more than half.

A restitution company was created in 2006 to search for account holders and return the assets to their families.

Meital Noy, a spokeswoman for the company, said it had been forced to begin legal proceedings this week after Bank Leumi had continued to claim that its findings were “baseless”.

The bank paid $5m two years ago in what it says was a “goodwill gesture”. Ms Noy called the payment “a joke”. She said 3,500 families, most of them in Israel, were seeking reparations from Bank Leumi.

The bank was further embarrassed by revelations in 2007 that one per cent of its shares -- worth about $80 million -- belonged to tens of thousands of Jews killed during the Holocaust.

Mr Hillinger, who was born in Belgium in 1936 and spent the Second Wold War hiding in southern France, today lives in Petah Tikva in central Israel.

He said before the outbreak of war his father and grandfather had invested money in the Anglo-Palestine Bank, the forerunner of Leumi, in the hope it would gain them a visa to what was then British-ruled Palestine.

Although his parents escaped the death camps, his grandparents were sent to Auschwitz and died in the gas chambers shortly after arrival.

Mr Hillinger said he had only learnt of the outstanding debt from Bank Leumi after his father, Moses, died in 1996. Papers showed the bank had paid his father “a pittance” in 1952 when he closed his account and that it had never returned his grandfather’s money.

When he wrote to Bank Leumi in 1998, it denied his grandfather had ever opened an account.

“My grandfather died because he was a Jew, and it is shameful that other Jews are exploiting his death,” he said. “We need to wake people up about this.”

A quarter of a million Holocaust survivors are reported to be in Israel, with one-third of them living in poverty, according to welfare organisations.

Shraga Elam, an Israeli investigative financial journalist based in Zurich, said after the war many Israelis showed little sympathy for the European Jewish refugees who arrived in Israel.

“David Ben Gurion [Israel’s first prime minister] notoriously called them ‘human dust’, and I remember as children we referred to them as sabonim, the Hebrew word for soap,” he said, in reference to the rumoured Nazi practice of making soap from Jewish corpses.

“In fact, I can’t think of any place in the world where [Holocaust] survivors are as badly treated as they are in Israel,” Mr Elam said.

He said Bank Leumi’s “lost” accounts were only a small fraction of Holocaust assets held by Israeli companies and the Israeli state that should have been returned. The total could be as much as $20bn.

He said European Jews had invested heavily in Palestine in the pre-war years, buying land, shares and insurance policies and opening bank accounts. During the Second World War Britain seized most of these assets as enemy property because the owners were living in Nazi-occupied lands.

In 1950 Britain repaid some $1.4 million to the new state of Israel, which was supposed to make reparations to the original owners.

However, little effort was made to trace them or, in the case of those who died in the Holocaust, their heirs. Instead the Israeli government is believed to have used the funds to settle new immigrants in Israel.

“These are huge assets, including real estate in some of the most desirable parts of Israel,” Mr Elam said.

Last year the Israeli media reported an investigation showing that the finance ministry destroyed its real estate files in the 1950s, apparently to conceal the extent of the state’s holding of Holocaust assets.

The case against Bank Leumi may end the generally muted criticism inside Israel of the banks’ role. Officials and even the families themselves have been concerned about the damage the case might do to Israel’s image as the guardian of Jewish interests.

In 2003 Ram Caspi, Bank Leumi’s lawyer, used such an argument before the parliamentary committee, warning its members that the US media “will say the Israeli banks also hide money, not just the Swiss”.

Organisations that led the campaign for reparations from European banks, such as the Jewish Claims Conference and the World Jewish Restitution Organisation, have also downplayed the role of the Israeli banks.

Counterpunch/JCook.net

Jewish mystification of History and new attacks on Catholics and Poland

Jewish mystification of History and new attacks on Catholics and Poland

Pod prąd - Bogusław Wolniewicz 1/4




Jewish mystification of History and new attacks Catholics and Poland

• The New World Order Attacks Poland & Catholicism, an interview with E. Michael
why Poland has to pay for th Hitler and Stalin
Jones and Thomas Herron (October 2006)
http://romancatholicreport.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/NWOPolishShakedown1006.mp3


Israel, the Catholic Church and Anti-Semitism, featuring E. Michael Jones and Israel Shamir (September 2008)
The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and Its Impact on World History, Part I of an interview series with E. Michael Jones (September 2008)

• Libido Dominandi - Lust, Power, and Control, an interview with E. Michael Jones (July 2007)

• The Da Vinci Code Bonanza for Catholic Writers; A Pending Attack on Poland; South Bend Homosexuals; and, The Ravenous New World Order, an interview with E. Michael Jones and Thomas Herron (May 2006)

Spielberg's Munich - The End of the Holocaust Era and an Allegory for the post-9/11 USA, an interview with E. Michael Jones (January 2006)

http://romancatholicreport.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/MunichReview0106.mp3
Agents of Influence, an interview with E. Michael Jones and Thomas Herron (December 2005)
http://romancatholicreport.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/AgentsofInfluence1205.mp3
Nostra Aetate - What It Really Says, an interview with E. Michael Jones (November 2005)
http://romancatholicreport.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/NostraAetate1105.mp3

Church Persecution, an interview with E. Michael Jones and Thomas Herron (October 2005)

• Libido Dominandi - Lust, Power, and Control, an interview with E. Michael Jones (July 2007)



Israeli Firms Accused of Profiting Off Holocaust ( 0) Print This ShareThisBy Jonathan Cook
Counterpunch
Saturday, Jun 27, 2009


Israel’s second largest bank will be forced to defend itself in court in the coming weeks over claims it is withholding tens of millions of dollars in “lost” accounts belonging to Jews who died in the Nazi death camps.

Bank Leumi has denied it holds any such funds despite a parliamentary committee revealing in 2004 that the bank owes at least $75 million to the families of several thousand Holocaust victims.

Analysts said the bank’s role is only the tip of an iceberg in which Israeli companies and state bodies could be found to have withheld billions of dollars invested by Holocaust victims in the country -- dwarfing the high-profile reparations payouts from such European countries as Switzerland.

“All I want is justice,” said David Hillinger, 73, whose grandfather, Aaron, died in Auschwitz, a Nazi camp in Poland. Lawyers are demanding reparations of $100,000 for Bank Leumi accounts held by his father and grandfather.

The allegations against Bank Leumi surfaced more than a decade ago following research by Yossi Katz, an Israeli historian.

He uncovered bank correspondence in the immediate wake of the Second World War in which it cited “commercial secrecy” as grounds for refusing to divulge the names of account holders who had been killed in the Holocaust.

“I was shocked,” said Dr Katz, from Bar Ilan University near Tel Aviv. “My first reaction was: ‘My God, this isn’t Switzerland!’ ”

In 1998, following widespread censure, Swiss banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion in reparations after they there were accused of having profited from the dormant accounts of Holocaust victims.

Dr Katz’s revelations led to the establishment of a parliamentary committee in 2000 to investigate the behaviour of Israel’s banks. Its report came to light belatedly in 2004 after Bank Leumi put pressure on the government to prevent publication.

Investigators found thousands of dormant accounts belonging to Holocaust victims in several banks, though the lion’s share were located at Bank Leumi. Obstructions from Leumi meant many other account holders had probably not been identified, the investigators warned.

The parliamentary committee originally estimated the accounts it had located to be worth more than $160m, using the valuation formula applied to the Swiss banks. But under pressure from Leumi and the government, it later reduced the figure by more than half.

A restitution company was created in 2006 to search for account holders and return the assets to their families.

Meital Noy, a spokeswoman for the company, said it had been forced to begin legal proceedings this week after Bank Leumi had continued to claim that its findings were “baseless”.

The bank paid $5m two years ago in what it says was a “goodwill gesture”. Ms Noy called the payment “a joke”. She said 3,500 families, most of them in Israel, were seeking reparations from Bank Leumi.

The bank was further embarrassed by revelations in 2007 that one per cent of its shares -- worth about $80 million -- belonged to tens of thousands of Jews killed during the Holocaust.

Mr Hillinger, who was born in Belgium in 1936 and spent the Second Wold War hiding in southern France, today lives in Petah Tikva in central Israel.

He said before the outbreak of war his father and grandfather had invested money in the Anglo-Palestine Bank, the forerunner of Leumi, in the hope it would gain them a visa to what was then British-ruled Palestine.

Although his parents escaped the death camps, his grandparents were sent to Auschwitz and died in the gas chambers shortly after arrival.

Mr Hillinger said he had only learnt of the outstanding debt from Bank Leumi after his father, Moses, died in 1996. Papers showed the bank had paid his father “a pittance” in 1952 when he closed his account and that it had never returned his grandfather’s money.

When he wrote to Bank Leumi in 1998, it denied his grandfather had ever opened an account.

“My grandfather died because he was a Jew, and it is shameful that other Jews are exploiting his death,” he said. “We need to wake people up about this.”

A quarter of a million Holocaust survivors are reported to be in Israel, with one-third of them living in poverty, according to welfare organisations.

Shraga Elam, an Israeli investigative financial journalist based in Zurich, said after the war many Israelis showed little sympathy for the European Jewish refugees who arrived in Israel.

“David Ben Gurion [Israel’s first prime minister] notoriously called them ‘human dust’, and I remember as children we referred to them as sabonim, the Hebrew word for soap,” he said, in reference to the rumoured Nazi practice of making soap from Jewish corpses.

“In fact, I can’t think of any place in the world where [Holocaust] survivors are as badly treated as they are in Israel,” Mr Elam said.

He said Bank Leumi’s “lost” accounts were only a small fraction of Holocaust assets held by Israeli companies and the Israeli state that should have been returned. The total could be as much as $20bn.

He said European Jews had invested heavily in Palestine in the pre-war years, buying land, shares and insurance policies and opening bank accounts. During the Second World War Britain seized most of these assets as enemy property because the owners were living in Nazi-occupied lands.

In 1950 Britain repaid some $1.4 million to the new state of Israel, which was supposed to make reparations to the original owners.

However, little effort was made to trace them or, in the case of those who died in the Holocaust, their heirs. Instead the Israeli government is believed to have used the funds to settle new immigrants in Israel.

“These are huge assets, including real estate in some of the most desirable parts of Israel,” Mr Elam said.

Last year the Israeli media reported an investigation showing that the finance ministry destroyed its real estate files in the 1950s, apparently to conceal the extent of the state’s holding of Holocaust assets.

The case against Bank Leumi may end the generally muted criticism inside Israel of the banks’ role. Officials and even the families themselves have been concerned about the damage the case might do to Israel’s image as the guardian of Jewish interests.

In 2003 Ram Caspi, Bank Leumi’s lawyer, used such an argument before the parliamentary committee, warning its members that the US media “will say the Israeli banks also hide money, not just the Swiss”.

Organisations that led the campaign for reparations from European banks, such as the Jewish Claims Conference and the World Jewish Restitution Organisation, have also downplayed the role of the Israeli banks.

Counterpunch/JCook.net

Dlaczego biedna Polska ma placic za Hitlera i Stalina teraz Zydzi chca nasze spodnie i buty zabrac.

Dlaczego biedna Polska ma placic za Hitlera i Stalina teraz Zydzi chca nasze spodnie i buty zabrac.






Chcą majątkowych przywilejów
Nasz Dziennik, 2009-06-27
Organizacje żydowskie chcą ułatwień prawnych w odzyskiwaniu dawnych majątków ofiar holokaustu

Władysław Bartoszewski reprezentuje Polskę podczas rozpoczętej w Pradze międzynarodowej konferencji "Mienie ery holokaustu". Uczestniczący w niej eksperci z różnych państw już na jej wstępie - co stanowi swoisty paradoks - sformułowali wnioski końcowe. Wynika z nich, iż Polska powinna zwrócić mienie należące przed wojną do Żydów, a jeśli jest to już niemożliwe - to wypłacić ekwiwalent pieniężny. Organizacje żydowskie domagają się również złagodzenia wymogów, jeśli chodzi o dokumentację posiadaną przez osobę składającą wniosek o zwrot majątku, co może umożliwić nadużycia. Warto przy tym podkreślić, że dotychczas nie zostało zwrócone Polakom mienie zagarnięte przez komunistyczne władze, bo wciąż nie ma ustawy reprywatyzacyjnej.

W z góry przyjętym podsumowaniu podkreślono, że "skonfiskowana własność prywatna nie została zwrócona dawnym właścicielom w krajach Europy Środkowowschodniej, ale znacjonalizowana za rządów komunistycznych". Tymczasem, na co wskazują eksperci, każde mienie - niezależnie od tego, czy polskie, czy żydowskie, czy jakiekolwiek inne - jeżeli nie miało spadkobiercy, automatycznie przechodziło na własność Skarbu Państwa.
"Jeśli skonfiskowana własność nie może być zwrócona, kraje powinny zapewnić alternatywną własność tej samej wartości albo zapewnić godziwe odszkodowanie" - napisano w dokumencie. Postuluje się w nim także powołanie specjalnych "trybunałów albo agencji ds. roszczeń", którym do wydania decyzji miałyby wystarczać "alternatywne formy dowodów". Wnioski w tej sprawie składano by przy tym drogą elektroniczną lub za pośrednictwem placówek dyplomatycznych, przy czym ani miejsce zamieszkania, ani obecne obywatelstwo składającego wniosek nie miałoby żadnego znaczenia. Sporo wniosków może spłynąć od obywateli amerykańskich żydowskiego pochodzenia, a należy w tym momencie przypomnieć, że 16 lipca 1960 roku rząd Polski podpisał z rządem Stanów Zjednoczonych układ dotyczący roszczeń majątkowych obywateli i instytucji USA od Polski za pozostawiony i ocalały w Polsce majątek. Zgodnie z art. 1 tejże umowy rząd Polski zobowiązał się zapłacić, a rząd USA przyjąć, 40 mln dolarów za całkowite uregulowanie i zaspokojenie wszystkich roszczeń obywateli USA zarówno osób fizycznych, jak i prawnych, z tytułu nacjonalizacji i innego rodzaju przejęcia przez Polskę mienia oraz praw i interesów związanych lub odnoszących się do mienia, które nastąpiło w Polsce przed dniem podpisania i wejścia tego układu w życie. Spłata tego zobowiązania przez Polskę następowała w rocznych ratach przesyłanych na konto Departamentu Stanu i została w całości spłacona i rozliczona 10 stycznia 1981 roku.
Autorzy dokumentu wnoszą również o wprowadzenie dodatkowego finansowania przez wspólnotę międzynarodową żyjących wciąż ofiar holokaustu. "W tym kontekście sugeruje się wykorzystanie, gdzie to możliwe, pozbawionej spadkobierców żydowskiej własności w Europie Wschodniej. Dochody z tej własności, po uzgodnieniu z istniejącymi gminami żydowskimi, powinny być przekazane na zabezpieczenie bytowych potrzeb tych, którzy przeżyli, oraz na cele edukacji. Jeśli nie podejmiemy działania teraz, to będzie za późno, o wiele za późno" - napisano w podsumowaniu, dodając, iż wyrazicielem woli ofiar holokaustu, "którzy nie mieli albo nie mają wybranego przez siebie rządu do reprezentowania ich", ma być Światowa Organizacja na rzecz Restytucji Mienia Żydowskiego (World Jewish Restitution Organisation) oraz inne podobne instytucje. W opinii dr. hab. Mieczysława Ryby, nie ma prawnych możliwości, aby wypłacać odszkodowania instytucjom niemającym nic wspólnego ze spadkobiercami.
- Jest to jakiś rodzaj dziwactwa prawnego, a w niczym to nie zadośćuczyni tym, którzy ponieśli jakieś ofiary z tym związane - ocenił Ryba. - Jeżeli są jacyś spadkobiercy, to na gruncie polskim mają możliwość zwrotu mienia - dodał.
Nikt nie wyliczył: ile kosztowało odbudowanie pożydowskich budynków, wysokości kredytów hipotecznych zaciąganych pod zastaw tychże budynków przez trudniącą się handlem ludność żydowską. Wyliczenie tego jest o tyle utrudnione, że wiele ksiąg wieczystych po prostu się nie zachowało.
Warto przypomnieć, iż po 1945 roku wiele osób, które przeżyły holokaust, przyjeżdżało do swoich rodzinnych miejscowości i sprzedawało mienie. Dochodziło często przy tym do oszustw: osoby, które nie były spadkobiercami, podawały się za takowe, sprzedawały nieruchomości i wyjeżdżały. Proceder ten, w który w większości przypadków zaangażowane były komunistyczne służby bezpieczeństwa, był uprawiany na szeroką skalę, co zresztą często znajdowało swój finał na sali sądowej. Z kolei mienie nieprywatne przechodziło na własność państwa komunistycznego.
Tymczasem w Izraelu jedna z tamtejszych organizacji zajmująca się restytucją mienia osób ocalałych z holokaustu wytoczyła proces sądowy drugiemu co do wielkości izraelskiemu bankowi Leumi. Zarzuca mu odmowę wydania funduszy złożonych w nim przez ofiary holokaustu. Jak poinformował w rozmowie z dziennikiem "Jerusalem Post" rzecznik prasowy grupy Meital Noy, sprawa dotyczy ponad 3,5 tys. rachunków bankowych.
Anna Wiejak
"Przedsiębiorstwo holokaust" rusza pełną parą
Nasz Dziennik, 2009-06-26
David Peleg: Polska ma zwrócić miliardy dolarów albo mienie

W Pradze rozpoczyna się dzisiaj pięciodniowa międzyrządowa konferencja "Mienie ery holokaustu". Do udziału w niej zaproszono przedstawicieli czterdziestu dziewięciu państw oraz trzydzieści organizacji pozarządowych. Przedmiotem rozmów będzie restytucja mienia żydowskiego: komunalnego, religijnego oraz prywatnego, w tym także dzieł sztuki oraz dóbr kultury, do czego przedstawiciele społeczności żydowskiej będą starali się nakłonić przede wszystkim państwa Europy Środkowowschodniej.

Mienie, które nie ma spadkobierców, miałoby trafić do organizacji żydowskich. Z tej okazji 25 amerykańskich kongresmenów wystosowało list do władz Polski i Litwy. Polskie Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych dotychczas nie odpowiedziało na pytanie "Naszego Dziennika" o ewentualną reakcję strony polskiej na to pismo.
Inicjatorem apelu jest wyznaczony przez sekretarz stanu USA na przewodniczącego amerykańskiej delegacji Robert Wexler, demokratyczny członek Izby Reprezentantów oraz Komisji Spraw Zagranicznych. "Jest moim celem, aby w trakcie konferencji być jak najskuteczniejszym adwokatem ocalonych z holokaustu" - napisał w specjalnie wydanym oświadczeniu Wexler.
Izraelski dziennik "Haaretz" informuje, że już na trzy tygodnie przed międzynarodową konferencją w Pradze strona żydowska prowadziła rozmowy, czy kraje takie jak Polska i Ukraina powinny zwrócić "nieposiadającą spadkobierców własność, która należała do zamordowanych Żydów". "Podczas gdy te kraje sprzeciwiają się restytucji własności, która nie posiada spadkobierców, żydowscy przedstawiciele Konferencji 'Mienie ery holokaustu' rozpoczynającej się 26 czerwca w Pradze oświadczyli, że mienie nieposiadające spadkobierców powinno trafić do organizacji żydowskich" - pisze gazeta. W rozmowie z dziennikiem "Haaretz" David Peleg, nowo wybrany dyrektor Światowej Organizacji Żydów ds. Zwrotu Mienia, oszacował wartość utraconego w Polsce majątku żydowskiego na miliardy dolarów, na których zwrot będzie naciskał. Jednocześnie strona izraelska nie zadała sobie trudu sporządzenia kosztorysu odbudowy ze środków państwowych, a zatem przez poszczególne społeczeństwa, należących przed wojną do społeczności żydowskiej budynków i innych rodzajów wkładu w odbudowę. Konsekwentnie pomija się także kwestię kosztów utrzymania ich przez ponad pół wieku.
Kwestii restytucji poświęcił obszerny artykuł "Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs" (III: 1 /2009), w którym Herbert Block, nawiązując do tematu konferencji, żali się, iż żydowska własność znajduje się w złej kondycji z powodu zaniedbania jej przez lokalne władze. Zdaniem Blacka, do 2008 r. zwrócono łącznie 16 proc. żydowskiego mienia. Zauważa, że stosowne ustawy w tej materii nie zostały uchwalone na Litwie, Łotwie, w Bośni, Słowenii, Rosji, Białorusi i Mołdawii. "Najbardziej oporna, jeśli chodzi o rozmowy na temat restytucji, jest Litwa" - stwierdza Block.
- Zaoferowane przez Litwę odszkodowania za nieruchomości żydowskie przejęte podczas okupacji hitlerowskiej i sowieckiej są zbyt małe i następują zbyt późno - ocenił przedstawiciel Komitetu Żydów Amerykańskich (AJC) Andrew Baker po wczorajszym spotkaniu w Wilnie z premierem Litwy Andriusem Kubiliusem. W poniedziałek rząd w Wilnie zadecydował, że z powodu kryzysu gospodarczego w kraju odszkodowania, rozłożone na dziesięć lat, ruszą w roku 2012. Przyjęty w marcu projekt, który jeszcze ma być zaaprobowany przez parlament, przewiduje wypłacenie odszkodowań o wysokości 113 mln litów (33 mln euro) za sporne mienie, co według oceny rządu stanowi jedną trzecią jego wartości.
Zastanawiające, że ani amerykański Kongres (warto przypomnieć, że w Departamencie Stanu USA znajduje się specjalna komórka ds. zwrotu żydowskiego mienia; zaangażowane są w to także amerykańskie przedstawicielstwa dyplomatyczne.), ani środowiska żydowskie zwrotu mienia nie domagają się tak aktywnie od strony rosyjskiej, za to usiłują wymusić restytucję i odszkodowania na znajdujących się pod sowiecką okupacją Polakach i Litwinach.
Autorem sformułowania "przedsiębiorstwo holokaust" jest amerykański naukowiec żydowskiego pochodzenia Norman Finkelstein, który w jednej ze swych książek dowodzi, że żydowskie organizacje nauczyły się czerpać wymierne korzyści z odwoływania się do holokaustu.
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Holocaust assets conference opens in Prague
By KAREL JANICEK – 20 hours ago

PRAGUE (AP) — Holocaust survivors, Jewish groups and experts gathered in Prague on Friday to assess efforts to return property and possessions stolen by the Nazis to their rightful owners or heirs.

The five-day conference, which brings together delegates from 49 countries, is a follow-up to a 1998 meeting in Washington that led to agreements on recovering art looted by the Nazis.

Stuart Eizenstat, head of the U.S. delegation, called it the most ambitious international meeting ever on the recovery of such stolen possessions or compensation for their loss.

One goal is to produce international guidelines on this, but they would not be compulsory for the governments involved.

"There's no political will to have a binding treaty," Eizenstat acknowledged.

But he said the voluntary principles that were approved in Washington are having an impact. "We have hundreds of pieces of art that have been returned," he said.

During the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler and his followers killed 6 million Jews and seized billions of dollars of gold, art and private and communal property across Europe. But while countries such as Austria have stepped up restitution in recent years, critics claim some Central and Eastern European states still have a long way to go.

"Many governments in Central and Eastern Europe have not found a way to implement a process to resolve outstanding real property issues that is both consistent with national law and incorporates basic principles such as nondiscriminatory treatment of non-citizens and a simple, expeditious claims and restitution process," said conference delegate Christian Kennedy, the U.S. Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues.

Kennedy said the U.S. wants the meeting "to provide an impetus for an expansion in social welfare benefits to survivors and lay the framework for further real property compensation."

The Czech Republic, host of this week's meeting, and other countries, have come under fire for legal hurdles and a lack of political will that critics claim make property restitution in some cases practically impossible.

For example, attempts by Maria Altmann of California to reclaim a castle north of Prague that once belonged to her uncle, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, proved futile since she is not a Czech citizen.

"As far as I know, there is no legal method for obtaining any recovery there at this time," Altmann's lawyer, Randol Schoenberg, said in an e-mail. Altmann had waged — and won — a seven-year legal battle in neighboring Austria for the return of five paintings by Gustav Klimt.

Efforts by the daughter of wealthy Jewish banker Jiri Popper to recover a building he once owned in Prague also have stalled.

Czechoslovak President Edvard Benes gave the building, which currently houses the Russian Embassy, to the Soviet Union in 1945. Last year, Popper's daughter filed lawsuits against both the Czech Republic and Russia demanding restitution, but no trial date has been set because Czech authorities said they have failed so far to formally inform Moscow about it, said Irena Benesova, the family's lawyer.

While the Justice Ministry declined to comment on the matter, Russian Embassy spokesman Alexandr Pismenny said Moscow was the "honest owner."

Both Schoenberg and Benesova wanted to make their case at the conference but were turned away by organizers who said they did not want discussion of individual cases. The Holocaust Survivors' Foundation claims that others also have not been allowed to have their say in setting the agenda for the conference.

In a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dated June 19, the group expressed concern about "the lack of survivor involvement on the planning, priority setting and policy making roles in the conference."

Still, the Czech Republic does appear to be taking some steps in the right direction.

A government fund created nine years ago with 300 million koruna (US$15.9 million) has paid out 100 million koruna (US$5.3 million) to 516 out of 1,256 requests from 27 countries. The requests came from people whose restitution claims did not meet the criteria set by law.

The country also has set up the Documentation Center of Property Transfers of Cultural Assets of WWII Victims, an institution that identifies artwork and other items in Czech collections and museums that were seized from Jews during the Nazi occupation.

According to Director Helena Krejcova, some 7,000 paintings and other works of art that originally belonged to Czech Jews have been found, and another more than 1,000 stolen pieces are believed to be abroad.

"There's still a lot of work ahead of us," Krejcova said, adding that sometimes efforts to restitute items are stymied by a lack of cooperation from other states and a change to that is nowhere in sight.

Case in point: Czech authorities have been waiting five years for a reply from Russia after Krejcova's team traced a valuable collection of 500 porcelain pieces once owned by Holocaust victim Hans Meyer to St. Petersburg.

On the Net:
Holocaust Era Assets Conference: http://www.holocausteraassets.eu
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