Czech court says final 'No' to Jewish restitution claim
The Czech Republic's highest court has upheld previous rulings that dismissed a restitution claim by the Jewish descendants of a man who owned a snap button factory that was taken over by the Nazis and then nationalized.
The Constitutional Court has confirmed its 2010 verdict, which overturned a 2009 Supreme Court ruling and all previous rulings of lower courts that found in favor of three relatives of Zikmund Waldes, who owned the Koh-i-noor factory in Prague, seized by the Nazis in 1939. The heirs will also not get back a collection of 20 paintings that were housed in the plant. (Reuters)
