Good Will Foundation to administer one-time symbolic payment to eligible Lithuanian Jews or their heirs; provides total of €5-10 million to be distributed to approved applicants (New York, NY) [...]

Campaign highlights recent community property success stories while encouraging others to share their own stories to shine a light on the unprecedented theft of property from Jewish people and [...]

(New York, NY)  January 4, 2023:  The World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) issued the following statement on the Romanian Bucharest’s city council for refusing to dismantle a bust [...]

Legislation, introduced by Lithuanian Prime Minister in November, passes overwhelmingly, and will provide €37 million as symbolic compensation for private property expropriated during the [...]

Proposed legislation provides €37 million as symbolic compensation for private property expropriated during the Holocaust & addresses heirless Jewish property (New York, NY)  November 20, [...]

Conference focused on Holocaust era property restitution and related issues; Representatives of 47 countries provided new ideas of additional steps that can be taken as an implementation of the [...]

Report presents historical analysis of the KOMZA (Commission for the Gathering and Protection of Cultural Monuments and Antiquities) and information on current location of many cultural objects [...]

Resolution to Accelerate Return of Plundered Property to Holocaust Victims and Jewish Communities Introduced (Strasbourg, France,)  September 13, 2022: Charles Goerens, Member of the European [...]

The World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) welcomes the agreement by Romania to provide approximately 7,000 Holocaust survivors in Israel with pensions. After more than six years, a deal [...]

(New York, NY)  July 4, 2022:  The World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) welcomes the announcement by President Isaac Herzog and Polish President Andrzej Duda of restoring a Polish [...]