Fighting for crumbs:financial restitution in Eastern Europe

When communism fell in 1989, efforts to have successor East European governments make restitution to their surviving Jewish nationals for money and property expropriated by the Nazis during World War II met with resistance and obstruction. The Polish Government claimed, inaccurately, that they were not liable as Jews were killed by Germans not Poles. However a law passed in 1997 decreed that property of all surviving Jews still living in Poland must be returned.