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Online campaign urges Poles to unearth seized Jewish property in Poland
Itamar Eichner
Published: 19.06.19, 13:00
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1. Can it be decided once & for all: is it even within some/any
(06.19.19)
existing law, to put forward these demands?!
As a Jew I'm ready to say, "to hell with it", let's work for the future.
Otherwise it all becomes one bloody Balkans all over again!
Nobody forgets nor forgives anything and future conflict are just waiting to erupt over bones of our long departed forefathers....
Just don't give me that old "those who don't remember their past" mantra.
I do remember. I used to live there...
2. Almost funny
Tomek ,   Lublin   (06.19.19)
I am going to setup a hotline in Israel for people to report Nazi, Soviet, and Commie Poland collaborators.
3. AS A POLISH JEW ISRAEL DOES NOT REPRESENT ME.NOT IN MY NAME.
OLEG ,   FLORIDA   (06.19.19)
LET IT GO!!!. ANGLO-PALESTAINE BANK TODAY BANK LEUMI STOLE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, JEWELRY, GOLD AND LAND DEEDS OF VICTIMS. AFTER THEY OPENED ACCTS IN TEL AVIV IN THE 1930'S. 99.9% WERE MURDERED NO CLAIMS EVER FILLED THEY TOOK AND STOLE EVERYTHING PLUS BANK OFFICIALS DENY EVERYTHING..THE AMOUNT COULD BE ESTIMATED IN THE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. SOME LAND DEEDS WERE IN CENTRAL TA. LIKE KIKAR AMEDINA SQUARE. EVEN IF THE POLES WILL GIVE ANYTHING I DON'T WANT ANYTHING GOING TO ISRAEL OR THE SO CALLED CORRUPT JEWISH AGENCIES LIKE CLAIMS CONFERENCE THEY ARE PURE VULTURES. MY FATHER'S FAMILY LOST A LOT OF REAL ESTATE, FARM LAND AND THEIR LIVES I DON'T WANT ANYTHING FROM THE POLES. THEY WERE ALSO VICTIMS FROM THE NAZIS AND COMMUNISTS.AND TO MY JEWISH BROTHERS AND SISTERS AROUND THE WORLD THE VICTIMS ARE NOT COMING BACK. LET THEM REST IN PEACE.PLEASE!!!
4. To keep stolen things you need to hate
Mija   (06.19.19)
People can't just keep things they know are stollen without thinking it is deserved.
Restitution is not only about justice. It's a way for poles to free them from behaving with hate to the Jews.
There is a hate boosted by the need to justify keeping robed things. Let things go and respect the people.
5. History
Marek ,   Now on vacation in P   (06.20.19)
I would advise the Israelites to relearn the history on holocaust and make a claim they assume they have lost to appropriate European country, not Poland in this case!
6. Konskie, Poland
Mordechai Pelta ,   San Francisco, CA   (06.20.19)
The many personal effects of the Pelta were in the attic of ul. Pilsudskiego, which is occupied by Joanna Majchrowicz, daughter of the squatter who stole the building from the surviving Isaac Cyna and Leon and Isaac Pelta. Give all of these things to the heirs who have been begging for them back for years. Talk about nerve. Even the mayor of the town tried to help and Pani Majchrowicz is as arrogant as her parents who smashed all of our mezuzot with a hammer! They have my contact info: mdpelta@yahoo.com.
7. Many foreigners do not realize that ...
Alex Wolf ,   Wilmington, DE   (06.20.19)
Many foreigners do not realize that Polish people are divided on this issue and that the present Polish government (formed by the PiS party) stokes anti-foreign sentiments, anti-Jewish sentiments.

It also systematically uses intimidation to silence its opponents - on many issues. So far, its success is limited, because Polish people generally are courageous.

As an example of such intimidation attempts, the PIS government started to use disciplinary sanctions against judges, who take part in pro-democracy demonstrations or express support for them. The high bulk of Polish judiciary are not intimidated. Thus, so far those sanctions have little effect on Poland, except they greatly inconvenience the judges effected, such as moving them to small towns.

However, some people in Poland are intimidated, and men more than women. In this context, it is unrealistic to expect many Polish people to report to a foreign organization, particularly, an Israeli organization, properties that used to belong to Jews.
8. I AM A POLISH JEW I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH POLISH PEOPLE NOW.
OLEG ,   FLORIDA   (06.20.19)
I TRAVEL TO POLAND OFTEN PEOPLE KNOW I AM AN AMERICAN JEW NO ISSUES.MOST OF THE POLISH PEOPLE ARE HARD WORKING AND THEY TRY TO SURVIVE ECONOMICALLY. THEY HAVE NO INTEREST IN ISRAEL OR JEWISH ISSUES. THEY DON'T BRING IT UP. THEY ARE GOOD PEOPLE. DON'T TRY TO BLACKMAIL THEM FOR MONEY. LEAVE IT ALONE. THE MURDERED VICTIMS ARE NOT COMING BACK. LET THEM REST IN PEACE. SHALOM FROM FLORIDA
9. Legal info.
Stan Klis ,   Yyz   (06.21.19)
According to the Polish and international law the property of decesed without beneficiaries becomes the property of the municipal government. Anybody no matter of what descent who can prove is the legal owner or beneficiary and can prove it in Polish court will get the property back. It is normal process in democratic country. People who just want to get the property they didn't own or are not a beneficiary is just a thief.
10. ISRAELIS & AMERICAN JEWS ARE INFAMOUS FOR DISHONESTY.????.
oleg ,   florida   (06.21.19)
GROWING UP IN ISRAEL DURING THE 1967 WAR PETACH TIKVA IN A LOW CLASS SHIKUN ACHDOT BUILDING. THE RESERVISTS WHO WERE MOBILIZED RETURNED SOME OF THEM RICH FROM ROBBING ARAB HOMES MOSTLY IN THE WEST BANK DURING THE WAR.. THEY WERE DIRT POOR. SUDDENLY TO MY PARENTS SURPRISE THEY ALL BOUGHT APTS IN CENTER PETACH TIKVA AND KFAR SIRKIN FOR CASH. AND THEY GOT TELEPHONE SERVICE ALSO. BACK IN THE 1960'S IT WOULD TAKE 5-10 YEARS TO GET TEL HOME SERVICE.MY SO CALLED PEOPLE (jews) LIKE TO PUT THEIR HANDS IN EVERYONE'S COOKI JAR. WITHOUT WORKING THEY LIKE QUICK RICH SCHEMES.JUST LOOK AT WALL STREET, THE HIGH COST OF LIVING IN ISRAEL PRODUCED BY OFRA STRAUSS AND SHERRI ARRISON AND OTHERS WHO HAVE MILLION DOLLAR HOMES IN NY AND LONDON. EVEN BIBI'S BROTHER LIVES IN A HUGE FARM IN UP STATE NY. BE HONEST AND NICE TO OTHERS YOU BE REWARDED. THANK YOU KINDLY
11. JEWS ALWAYS PLAY THE VICTIM'S CARD. THEY RUN & RUN.& run
M BARR ,   miami   (06.21.19)
they never stay and fight back. but they are all great people like the leftis in hollywood and nyc.
12. Mrs
Gaja ,   Ashdod   (06.21.19)
What a strange idea.
They will never return Jewish proprperty willingly. They love it too much.Always did.
Only international preassure and sanctions will force them do it.
13. Dear Jews
Adam Gada   (06.21.19)
Make kickstarter campaign about 'restitution'. I'll give you few PLNs because I never leave people in need. Greetings from Poland!
14. Free Palestine
Slava ,   Krakow   (06.21.19)
There should be international pressure to take back arab's land from zionists beliving in ancient fairytales about being the chosen ones.
15. It's shit storm
Jan Kowalski ,   Krakow   (06.21.19)
Heirs may recover property or apply for compensation before Polish courts for more than 30 years. Jews are not privileged here - they are treated equally with others. Organisations that want to extort money from the Polish treasury for non-fallow property - let them not delude themselves. They will not get a penny.
16. Anti polonism accelerates
Piotr   (06.23.19)
This hotline is the evidence of anti polonism, it is like racism, but against a specific nation
17. What?
Radysh ,   Gorzow   (06.24.19)

After all, these were Jewish Poles and not Israelis! At a time when the Germans attacked Poland and murdered Poles, both Jews and Christians, homosexuals, atheists ... They destroyed the whole country ... There was no such thing as Israel. How can you be so cruel in your demands !?
18. Law is the same for everyone in Poland
Adam ,   Warsaw   (06.23.19)
In all countries in the world, if a citizen dies without any children his property goes to the state. The same law is in Poland and Jews that lived in Poland and were citizens of Poland, in case they died without children the state took ownership of their properties. If you have any claims to any property and you prove it in the court you'll get back your property, we have such law too. Jews are not exceptional people, they are treated the same way as any other ones in our country.
19. True about war
true ,   warsaw   (06.24.19)
Jews who died in the Holocaust were citizens of Poland (the state of Israel did not exist yet), so Poland had the right to take over its citizens' property in accordance with international standards because the Jews had Polish citizenship. After all, most of these tenement houses were destroyed by the Germans during the bombing, eg the entire Warsaw was in ruins. Poles have rebuilt these buildings and it is owned by Poles and not by Jews. If Jews want compensation, they should report to the Germans to pay them for the losses of war. The German government has not paid Poland even one cent.
20. European and Polish monsters
K ,   US   (06.25.19)
I have learned the Europeans are honestly the scums of the earth, reality is the Jews should understand these people are your enemy and they should let it go and hope in the future you are able to get back at these "human" monsters.
21. haha
tom   (06.25.19)
they are really funny hha
22. adam
(06.25.19)
no, they have more rights that poles. And in 5 or 10 years polish goverment will pay them...:(
23. LOL
Oyvey ,   Berlin   (06.25.19)
Triggered much Sholmo?
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