The Restitution of Jewish Property in Northern Transylvania during the Early Postwar Years.

As a result of the Second World War and its complicated history, the few returning Jewish Holocaust survivors experienced in Northern Transylvania a more complicated restitution process, compared to the Jews in the other parts of romania. This happened, because the community had a much lower survival rate, its property had been Aryanized under the Hungarian government which had controlled the region from 1940 to 1944 and had to navigate the restitution procedures under a special law adopted in July 1945. The region also experienced tensed interethnic relations and occasional violence. This paper investigates the socio-political context for the emergence of the restitution of Jewish property in Northern Transylvania in early post-Holocaust romania. It focuses on the historical context surround - ing the efforts of the Jewish survivors to rebuild their lives, on the stipu lations and problems that occurred in the reparatory process, as well as on several cases of court litigation of Jewish survivors for the restitution of their former assets during the early postwar years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]