Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has been asked to lend his weight to efforts to prevent Poland limiting restitution claims by Holocaust survivors.
On Friday, the Polish government published a proposed law that would allow claims on private property seized by the Nazis but restrict them to current Polish citizens or the “first heirs” of the original owners.
Jewish groups say this would effectively make claims impossible, as most “first heirs” were themselves murdered in the Holocaust, while the vast majority of survivors and their descendants do not hold Polish citizenship.
In a letter sent ahead of the publication of the bill, Baroness Deech, who is a prominent campaigner on the issue, urged the Foreign Secretary to intervene.
