December 10, 1993 • Page Image 51
…not returned to surviving owners or their relatives between the Nazis' defeat in 1945 and the Communist takeover in 1948. Only a limited number of individual cases are in- volved, since most Jewish estates expropriated by the Nazis and taken over by the state have no legal heirs who survived the Holocaust. Legislation on property restitution is not very pop- ular in this country, without regard to the religion of the property's original owner....…

















































