Holocaust Era Asset Restitution Taskforce Extends Deadline

Due to the overwhelming response from Holocaust survivors and heirs worldwide Project HEART has extended the deadline for individual to submit Questionnaires into 2012. The extension will allow additional eligible Holocaust victims and their heirs to participate in the most inclusive Holocaust era property restitution program in history.

Launched in late February 2011 by the Government of Israel in cooperation with the Jewish Agency for Israel, Project HEART seeks to identify Jewish Holocaust victims and their heirs worldwide who or whose families owned real estate or movable, immovable, or intangible personal property that was confiscated, looted, or forcibly sold in countries governed or occupied by the Nazi forces or Axis powers during the Holocaust era. Individuals can participate in the project if they or their families lost property and if restitution for that property has not been made after the Holocaust era. To participate in Project HEART, individuals only need to fill out the Questionnaire that may be found on the Project HEART website.

http://www.heartwebsite.org