Poland Creates Outrage by Limiting Holocaust Restitutions
- Lawmakers pass draft law establishing 30-year limit on claims
- Nationalist ruling party rejects payment of any damages
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Poland drew the ire of the U.S. government and Jewish groups for draft legislation that would make it more difficult for survivors of the Holocaust to recover property seized by the Nazis on Polish soil.
The nationalist Law & Justice Party, which has rejected calls for Poland to pay damages for the historic wrongs of World War II that began with an invasion by Germany, approved a law late Thursday in the lower house that establishes a 30-year limit for restitution claims.