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January 10, 2013
9:41 am

Jewish candidate Jan Fischer is favored to advance to the second round of the presidential elections in the Czech Republic. (Courtesy of the Jan Fischer campaign via JTA)

Czech ‘Joe Lieberman’ could be Europe’s first Jewish president

The son of an Auschwitz survivor, Jan Fischer compensates for his lack of charisma simply by being ‘ordinary’

By Dinah Spritzer

December 6, 2012
3:07 am

Polish lawmakers have not enacted any form of private restitution or compensation for the estimated $30.5 billion worth of property confiscated by the Nazis, then the communists. (Alik Keplicz/AP)

Poland seen as worst offender on Shoah restitution

Conference shows some progress, mostly evasion by governments across Central and Eastern Europe

By Dinah Spritzer