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      <title>Jewish organization blasts Belgian report rejecting Holocaust railway compensation</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Rejecting compensation allows the National Railway Company of Belgium to "dilute and evade the necessity of taking any current action," said the World Jewish Restitution Organization.]]></description>
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      <title>Art from prominent Swiss collection likely plundered from Jews</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Majority of countries have made no progress on Holocaust art restitution over the last quarter century.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2024 12:49:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Most countries refuse to budge on Shoah art restitution</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[More than 100,000 items have not been returned to their rightful owners.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 17:15:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>WJRO praises new Lithuanian law on Holocaust-era property restitution</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Legislation introduced in November by Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė will provide €37 million ($11.36 million) as symbolic compensation for private property expropriated during the Holocaust, and will address heirless Jewish property.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2022 23:09:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>WJRO welcomes Lithuania’s move to partially compensate Holocaust victims</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The World Jewish Restitution Organization applauds new legislation that would provide over $37 million as symbolic compensation to private claimants with respect to heirless Jewish property.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2022 13:21:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Will Polish anti-restitution law permanently harm ties with Israel, Jewish community?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[For months, the bill was condemned by the international community, which saw it as another attempt to wipe out responsibility to restore the property confiscated from its Jewish community during the years of World War II and the Holocaust.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2021 18:57:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>US, Israel, Jewish groups express dismay over Polish law limiting Holocaust-restitution claims</title>
      <link>https://www.jns.org/antisemitism/us-israel-and-jewish-groups-express-disappointment-over-polish-law-limiting-holocaust-restitution-claims</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[“I think that it’s sad that in 2021, Poland, instead of moving forward to try to address its history, is moving backwards to try to extinguish what limited rights people have,” said Gideon Taylor, chair of operations for the World Jewish Restitution Organization.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2021 22:39:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Dutch national railway to compensate Holocaust survivors and their families</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Survivors are to receive $16,700 from Nederlandse Spoorwegen, while surviving spouses are to receive $8,400, the company announces.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2019 07:29:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Bosnia and Herzegovina to address Holocaust restitution of property for EU entry</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[For the first time, the European Union has called on Bosnia and Herzegovina to address restitution of property that was seized during the Holocaust, a condition to being considered for E.U. membership.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2019 23:11:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Bosnia required to return stolen World War II Jewish property before joining EU</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The parliament calls on the country “to ensure the right to property; points out the lack of a comprehensive legislative framework on handling restitution claims and encourages the authorities to open a dialogue with interested parties on issues pertaining to the restitution of, or compensation for, seized property.”]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:24:41 GMT</pubDate>
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