@mishasidenberg

 "Requiring ''direct lineage'' while claiming that the sense of all this is to redress the "property-related injustices caused by the Holocaust" is indeed preposterous, if not outright on the verge of denying that the Shoah (Holocaust) was genocide. In this context everyone should also be reminded that Holocaust denial is a serious criminal offense in a number of European states, including the Czech Republic.  what nonsense!, in essence I agree with the rest of your post, but to say that to query direct lineage as opposed to any claim from some family member is tatamount to holocoast denial is ludicrous. Surely any man and his mouse with a speckling resembling a claim will then do so? And as Akita said, where does it stop? is there a time cutoff? of will we go back to WW1? or before? or colonial redresses? or the slavery question?