Ilan Charsky & Co. is a law firm founded by Ilan Charsky, a native of Poland and a licensed attorney since 1975. The firm specializes in civil-commercial law, with special emphasis on activity in Poland, handled by the firm's Polish Department. Since Poland’s entry into the European Union on May 1st 2004, many of Poland’s natives and their descendants around the world have expressed an increased interest in the possibility of obtaining Polish citizenship and a Polish passport. Such citizenship entitles them to settle, study, and work in European Union countries. Furthermore, there has been an increased interest in checking the legal status of real - estate assets that belonged to families at the start of World War II. The various employment and study options in Europe has increased the interest of many young people to assess their eligiblity for Polish citizenship.
The direct handling in Poland of all the procedures required in order to receive Polish citizenship, accelerates the process with the Polish Authorities. Queries and clarifications requested by the Polish authorities are answered quickly and professionally by the attorneys employed by the firm in Poland. This results in a more efficient process and in a significant reduction in the time taken to obtain Polish citizenship.
Recently, there have been important decisions regarding people who emigrated from Poland in the 1950's and 1960's. The administrative court in Poland that decided an appeal that was submitted by our clients ruled that that the request to renounce Polish citizenship that our clients were forced to sign as condition to leave Poland are not valid (further information can be see in our news section).
On this site there are links to other sites that have large amounts of important information regarding Jewish Polish families, to trace families and build family trees. These sites include:
Yad Vashem: on this site you can find witness statments about victims of the holocaust and information about the holocaust and the Jews of Europe.
JRI: this site has lists of births, marriages and deaths that took place all over Poland in the 19th century including the Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania.