Re: [Cz-L] Should Jews live in Czernowitz?

My best friend Danny, had found out that he had inherited property in Berlin.
The only way that he could get something out of it was to sell it to the Berlin municipality.
He had to hire a lawyer in Tel Aviv who worked with a lawyer in Frankfurt.
It took 8 years to get proceeds from the sale of the property.
He had to pay the 2 lawyer and the "Claim Conference" took a cut of 20%.
Claim Conference, why ?????
Every day the authorities requested a new piece of paper or a new document which most of them were lost during the war.

This was Berlin, Germany which is in the European Union.

Arthur

--- On Tue, 1/22/13, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> wrote:

> From: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Should Jews live in Czernowitz?
> To: "Charles Polak" <charles.polak_at_bbc.co.uk>
> Cc: "Ilana Gordon (ilana_at_wordwizardsinc.com)" <ilana_at_wordwizardsinc.com>, "Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
> Date: Tuesday, January 22, 2013, 4:46 PM
> Like Charles, I have met in
> Chernivtsi very nice people, some of them
> well educated and others, simple folk, who I am sure are not
> Anti-Semites
> and who would not object to returning property which be
> longed to Jews,
> to the former owners or their descendants.
> Currently the Ukraine does not have a law which requires the
> properties
> to be returned. Josif Zissels, the founder of the Jewish
> museum in Chernivtsi,
> has for a long time fought for such a law to be passed, but
> so far
> has not been successful.
>
> Mimi
>
> On Jan 22, 2013, at 9:44 AM, Charles Polak wrote:
>
> >
> > Ilana: I don't know!
> >
> > I've been to Ukraine only once, for 10 days in Kiev, to
> install computers=
> > . I really liked the Ukrainian journalists and
> engineers I got to know ther=
> > e, and the people I met seemed to be rather like the
> Czechs were 20 years a=
> > go, anxious to get democracy established and become a
> just and open society=
> > ; one very good thing I noticed was that people of the
> type I met considere=
> > d antisemitism a shameful relic of the past.
> >
> > Assuming that Ukraine has a full-scale law of
> restitution =96 maybe it does=
> >  not, but I=92d think there=92s a good chance that
> it does =96 you=92d have=
> >  to present your legal evidence to a local court.
> However, the Tymoshenko c=
> > ase makes me fear that the judiciary is not very
> independent, and growth of=
> >  the Svoboda (=91Freedom=92) party, very like
> Jobbik in Hungary, exactly in=
> >  the West of Ukraine, makes me fear that if a case
> came to court involving =
> > a claim by Jews for recovery of property in Chernivtsy
> in use by generation=
> > s of non-Jewish Ukrainians, there wouldn=92t be a very
> good chance of its b=
> > eing decided in the Jews=92 favour.
> >
> > Maybe this is pessimistic. You=92d have to talk to an
> international lawyer =
> > with experience of Ukrainian legislation and legal
> procedure, or indeed a U=
> > krainian lawyer =96 I=92m writing about something I
> really don=92t know eno=
> > ugh about. However, I couldn=92t agree more with you
> and anyone else who wa=
> > nts to make the attempt at recovery of what should
> still be theirs. If enou=
> > gh people make it, perhaps a wider movement towards
> such recovery or restit=
> > ution will gain the advantage of =91momentum=92.
> >
> > Charles Polak
> > mailto:charles.polak_at_bbc.co.uk
> >
> > From: Ilana Gordon [mailto:ilana_at_wordwizardsinc.com]
> > Sent: 21 January 2013 20:26
> > To: Charles Polak
> > Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Should Jews live in Czernowitz?

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