Source: Alon Goldman

Before World War II, one of the ways that Diaspora Jews could support the Zionist vision and Israel was by purchasing shares in Jewish Colonial Trust Limited (JCT), the parent company of the Anglo-Palestine Bank (the predecessor of Bank Leumi), which was founded by Benjamin Ze’ev Herzl in 1899, with the aim of serving as a financial instrument of the Zionist movement.

The website of the General Custodian of Israel contains a list of abandoned shareholdings belonging to Holocaust victims, including those from Częstochowa.

At the request of World Society Vice-President Alon Goldman, the General Custodian has compiled a listing of all the names of property owners (securities and deposits) linked to Częstochowa (spelt in different forms).

Click HERE to view the listing.

Anyone, who believes that he/she may be the rightful heir of any of these registered property owners, should contact the General Custodian according to the following instructions:
Instructions in Hebrew:  https://www.gov.il/he/service/returning_abandoned_asset

Instructions in English: https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/unit/lrup/en/application-form.pdf

If, following this publication, you were able to receive any unexpected inheritance, we would greatly appreciate you donating some amount to our continuing maintenance and restoration of our Częstochowa Jewish cemetery: