Belgrade – Serbia Passes Holocaust Restitution Law

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    FILE - A Gypsy boy sits on a sarcophagus outside his house which was built above the dead in an old Jewish cemetery on the outskirts of the southern Serbian town of Nis. The first Roma settled at the cemetery sometime after World War Two, when most of Nis's Jews were killed during Nazi Germany's occupation of the Balkan country. It gradually grew into a community of about 300 people. PICTURE TAKEN May 9, 2004 REUTERS/Stevan Lazarevic Belgrade – Serbian lawmakers have voted on a bill allowing the restitution of heirless and unclaimed Jewish property expropriated during the Holocaust.

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    The World Jewish Restitution Organization said Friday Serbia is one of the first countries in Eastern Europe to pass such a bill, which means the property will be returned to the local Jewish community.

    Gideon Taylor, WJRO chair of operations, says “this is a step toward justice and the recognition of history.”

    Taylor said in a statement “we look to other countries to follow Serbia’s lead.”

    The organization had actively campaigned for the law to be passed.

    Tens of thousands of Jews living in Serbia during World War II perished in brutal Nazi-run death camps or were mass deported to the camps outside the Balkan country.


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