Re: [Cz-L] Property return to pre-war owners?

Mark wants to know about returned real property. I
have a Denver-born cousin, [related through my
Wiznitsa HOCHSTADT family], who with his two brothers,
reclaimed the family compound in Dej. I believe that
their father, by immigrating through Mexico to the
U.S., and having an arranged marriage, became the sole
survivor of that branch of my family.

Now, Dej is not Czernowitz by any means. Dej is in
Cluj province, and was part of Hungary prior to the
end of WWI. And the Romanian government is not the
Ukrainian government. And a private family home or
group of homes is not a religious building or other
communal space.

But the brother who is a lawyer, [also my cousin of
course], wouldn't take 'NO' for an answer. Finally,
he won the property back. Now, for maybe 15-20 years,
he and his family annually go to Dej for two weeks,
and vacation in the main house. And the family
doesn't care that the community sees it as vacant for
50 weeks of the year! It is their testimony to the
neighbors that once a proud and large Jewish family
lived there.

I could try to contact my lawyer cousin and ask him
some pertinent questions. If this would be helpful, I
suggest that we try to define in a dozen questions or
less what we might like to know from their experience.

Best to all, [especially all my cousins and landsleit
living in northern Israel.]
Shellie Wiener
San Francisco, CA
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On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:29:06 EDT, Mark Heckman
<mrheckman_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

Is it true that property is being returned to pre-war
owners? What happens to the people who think they own
it now? My cousin asked me about the chance of getting
their apartment back, but I told him I didn't think it
was likely. Has anyone in the list ever actually
reclaimed land or buildings?

--Mark Heckman
Davis, California
Received on 2006-07-18 06:32:54