WARSAW, Poland, June 26 (UPI) -- U.S. congressmen are urging Poland and Lithuania to pass bills on compensation of property seized from Jews by Nazis during World War II, officials said.
A group of 25 U.S. lawmakers sent letters on Jewish property restitution to the governments of Lithuania and Poland on the eve of the Holocaust Era Assets Conference being held June 26-30 in Prague, the Czech Republic, Polish Radio said Friday.
The five-day conference on Holocaust settlement will discuss the return of property, looted from Jews during WWII, to the victims or their relatives. Representatives of 50 countries and 30 non-government organizations are to attend the Prague conference.
Maciej Wiewior, spokesman for the Polish Treasury Ministry, said the issue of property restitution is extremely complex and sanctioning it by law could take quite a long time.
Wiewior said Poland is prepared to pay compensation to those who had their property confiscated during the Nazi occupation and later during the post-war communist rule. The compensation could be paid in installments, he told Polish Radio.
