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Anger at law to stop Jews reclaiming homes lost in Holocaust

A few years ago, Shoshana Greenberg stood outside a building in Lodz, Poland, once owned by her family, with an old photograph in her hands and tears running down her face.

Greenberg, now 74 and living in Tel Aviv, was on a quest to reclaim property lost during the Holocaust. Her father was head of a prominent Jewish family in Lodz that owned industrial buildings and residential properties.

When the Nazis came, the property was

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