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Haaretz, Wed., March 30, 2005

Source: Only U.S. can help on Polish property
By Amiram Barkat

Only intervention by the U.S. government can effect a breakthrough on
the issue of restitution of Jewish property in Poland, political sources
said yesterday, in response to a report on Polish Jewish property that
was prepared for the ministerial committee for restitution of Jewish assets.
The report, first reported in Haaretz yesterday, states that assets
stolen from Polish Jews in World War II are valued at more than $30
billion. However, the editors of the report said, only a small fraction
of owners of the assets are likely to be found, since more than 90
percent of Polish Jewry was murdered in the Holocaust.

Political sources in Jerusalem said the Israeli government does not have
the ability to influence Poland effectively, and that trying to do so
would damage ties with the country.

Rivka Kanarek, media advisor to Minister Natan Sharansky who heads the
committee, said that the report has not yet been submitted to the
committee, and that no government forum has yet defined its policy
regarding restitution of the assets of Polish Jews.