71 members of the European Parliament from over twenty countries of the European Union, and five political organizations, publicized this past Monday a call to increase support for Holocaust victims by accelerating and increasing the restoration of property which was stolen and pillaged from Jews during the Second World War.
The parliament members, representing a line of parties from the full political spectrum, obligated themselves in a joint announcement to work together to restore property from the days of the Holocaust and deal with welfare problems of the survivors which are continuously deteriorating and the poverty in which many of the survivors live.
This declaration also calls upon European commissions and countries of the European Union to appoint special representatives for Holocaust matters and to provide them with the tools to execute the European commitment with regards to said restoration, in complying with the Teresin Declaration of 2009 regarding property from the Holocaust period. This declaration, approved at the end of a convention in Prague, affirmed by 47 countries, included a program of actively aiding the victims of Nazi persecution and their commemoration.
