British Baroness Deech, former head of Oxford University, is planning to sue Poland for compensation for property that she charged was confiscated during the Nazi regime, according to the London Jewish Chronicle. She said her maternal grandmother, who was killed in a concentration camp, owned buildings in the city of Krakow, and that her paternal grandfather owned a former oil refinery.
"I don't care if it's a penny or a million pounds, she said. Its acknowledgement I am after," she commented. Poland passed a law in 1977 offering compensation for stolen communal Jewish property but has not passed any legislation to compensate private owners.