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A court in Germany evicts a family from a house taken away from Jews under Hitler
The German Federal Administrative Court approved the decision to seize the house of 84-year-old Gabriele Liske and her 61-year-old son Thomas in favor of the “Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany.” The house was owned by two Jewish women, but in 1939 the Nazi regime forced them to sell the property; they were later killed in a concentration camp. The newspaper Spiegel reports this.
In 1932, Jewish women Alice Donat and Helene Lindenbaum bought three plots of land in the community of Wandlitz near Berlin. They built a shelter there for Jewish children. In 1939, the Nazis forced them to sell the property. Felix Mogelin, the grandfather of the owner who lost in court, bought the house from the women.
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The former owners Alice Donat and Helen Lindenbaum were killed in Auschwitz in 1943-1944. According to the law, in cases where neither the former owners of property nor their descendants can claim their rights, the property is transferred to the “Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany.”
The Conference on Jewish Material Claims laid claim to the Liske family's real estate back in 1992. In 2015, the Office of Unresolved Property Issues warned the owners that it would transfer their land to a Jewish organization. After this, Liske's mother and son tried to challenge the decision in court, but lost. On December 11, their final appeal was rejected by the German Federal Administrative Court.
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The organization that won in court told Spiegel that it would give 84-year-old Liska the right to live in the house seized from her for life. “My world is falling apart. I spent my whole life in this house,” the woman shared. Her son Thomas said that “the family was left with nothing” and he does not yet know where he will live.
The Spiegel newspaper calls this trial one of the last in the framework of restitution - compensation for material damage to Jews who became victims of National Socialism in Germany.
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