Land Claim in Poland?

Enialedam	Feb 10, 07, 18:36 / #
Hi! I just found this site, and have a question ... My Grandparents lived in Poland before WWII; my grandfather's family were land owners, and had a huge estate in present-day Ukraine, near the Polish/Ukraine border. However, during the Russian invasion, my grandfather's family was sent to Siberia, and the land taken away. After WWII, my grandparents made the choice to leave Europe, and never tried to get the lands back. My family now lives in Canada, and I've never been to Poland before. However, a while ago I was talking to my dad on the phone, and we were discussing trying to get the family lands back. Do people try this often? Is it often very successful? Any information would be helpful!

KowalskiThreads: 12 Posts: 619 Joined: Sep 13, 06	Feb 10, 07, 19:20 / #
You can only get financial reimbursment or some other property from the state and it would be only 20 % of estimated value of your family lost property. People in Poland were fighting a long legal battle and this is the current state of afairs according to my knowledge. You'd have to establish only just one heir/heiress, have someone doing legitimate financial estimate of your losess among some other steps - I'm reading on website in polish ... Looks like you'd need a layer, too and there are some specializing in cases like yours.