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Lady Justice (Photo by Tingey Injury Law Firm on Unsplash) The Supreme Court of Poland upheld a 6-year-old ruling in favour of the descendants of a Holocaust survivor who had sued to reclaim from a Krakow-area church ownership of land stolen from her. Monday’s decision by the court’s Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Rights ends a protracted legal battle by the family of Blanka Goldman to regain ownership of the land, which was sold illegally to the Our Lady of the Scapular church in the town of Tarnow. The Poetschke family, who was not Jewish, hid Blanka from the German occupat...

Illustrative: A view of Tarnow, Poland (YouTube screenshot) Poland’s Supreme Court ruled this week in favor of an Australian Jewish woman locked in battle with the Polish church over her family’s ancestral plot of land near Krakow, which she said was stolen by neighbors and handed over to the parish illegally after the Holocaust. The court’s Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Rights on Monday upheld a six-year-old ruling in favor of Ann Drillich, who has been battling Polish religious authorities for years. Drillich’s family had lived in Tarnow for centuries until the Nazi oc...

Follow Dec. 17, 2020 The Polish Supreme Court ruled this week that a church in the city of Tarnów, near Krakow, was built on land stolen illegally from its proper owners – a Jewish Holocaust survivor. Her daughter, the heir to the property who lives in Australia, is now waiting for a decision on the compensation she will receive from the Roman Catholic Church. The Supreme Court decision was a defeat for Poland's justice minister, who in an exceptional move intervened in the case. In his role as prosecutor general, he ordered the matter reopened, after two lower courts – and the Supreme C...