By June 2018, all countries in Europe, with the exception of Poland, have passed legislation to compensate owners for properties seized under Nazi and communist rule. Poland now considers limited legislation that would nonetheless include provisions for restitution to spouses, children, and grandchildren of now deceased victims.

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In 2001, a lawsuit is brought against the French national railroad in the Eastern District of New York Court charging the Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer with transporting 72,000 Jews to death camps in August 1944.

June 15, 1980

In 1980, the United States gives $81 million to the Klamaths of Oregon.

June 15, 1988

In 1988, Canada agrees to transfer 250,000 square miles of land to First Nation peoples.