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“We hope this success story will encourage others to keep researching and pushing auction houses and governments to return the thousands of other Nazi stolen items on the market to their rightful owners,” said U.S. ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell.
Poland is the only affected nation that doesn’t have legislation dealing with confiscated restitution. In March 2018, 59 senators called on Poland to pass and enact such a law.
Survivors are to receive $16,700 from Nederlandse Spoorwegen, while surviving spouses are to receive $8,400, the company announces.
The bill would incorporate several provisions into the Older Americans Act to ensure that Holocaust survivors have coordinated, trauma-informed care and services tailored to their needs.
The U.S. president will partake in ceremonies in Warsaw; it will be his second visit to Poland since July 2017.
“As a nation, we cannot allow a return to the hateful actions that led to the Holocaust,” said co-sponsor Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.).
In a Facebook post discussing how he spent his 40th birthday, he wrote, “I spent a beautiful day with my family, music, food in the home of my SS friend, then my birthday cake arrived, a gift from my SS friend.”
“We regret anyone was offended; it was certainly not our intention,” said Debra DeShong, senior vice president of corporate communications for MGM Resorts International.
Twenty-three percent of respondents reported being exposed to white supremacy, 8 percent to pro-Islamic State statements and 13 percent to disinformation about the Sept. 11 terror attacks, among other topics.
The final tally in the Vilnius city council decision to change the name of Kazio Skirpos Street was 21-16.
A $28 million project refurbishing and documenting Jewish sepulchral heritage in Poland is prompting dialogue between the Polish and Jewish people.
“In Jerusalem, together with presidents and heads of state, we will join forces in the uncompromising fight against anti-Semitism, xenophobia and Holocaust denial,” Israeli President Reuven Rivlin about the World Holocaust Forum, scheduled to take place on Jan. 27, 2020.
