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Source: https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/If-not-now-when-581045
A Timely Reminder of Poland's Relationship with the Past
(Jerusalem Post) Gideon Taylor and Colette Avital - More than 75 years since the Holocaust, Poland has still not provided justice to survivors and their families whose property was taken during the Shoah and its aftermath. Last week, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in Warsaw: "I urge my Polish colleagues to move forward with comprehensive private property restitution legislation for those who lost property during the Holocaust era." Poland is the only country in the EU that has not passed comprehensive national legislation to return, or provide compensation for, private property confiscated by the Nazis. For many years, the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) has urged the Polish government to address the issue of Holocaust-era restitution. Gideon Taylor is WJRO chairman of operations and Ambassador Colette Avital is WJRO secretary-general.