The Serbian parliament adopted the law on remedying the consequences of seizure of assets of Holocaust victims with no living legal heirs on Friday.
Under the law, financial support for the Union of Jewish Municipalities is provided from the Serbian budget in the form of payment of monetary sums totaling EUR 950,000 over a calendar year, for a period of 25 years, starting from 2017.
The Union and Jewish municipalities manage the revenues and use them to finance research into the Holocaust period, Holocaust education and scholarships for students and young talents in Serbia, among other things.
Under the document, a request for the return of assets will be submitted by a Jewish municipality and the resulting procedure conducted by the Agency for Restitution, which has to determine all the facts and circumstances pertaining to the request and make a decision by which it is approved and the assets transferred to the ownership of the Jewish municipality or reject the request as unfounded.
Source: Tanjug
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