Bearing Witness is a documentation initiative examining how Holocaust-era property claims may have been excluded from review due to the interaction of citizenship requirements, procedural barriers, and statutory deadlines in postwar restitution systems.

Drawing upon archival records, legal research, and personal testimony, the project seeks to preserve historical continuity while identifying whether these barriers reflect isolated outcomes or broader structural patterns.

The purpose of this effort is not only historical preservation, but also to better understand how documented claims were addressed—or prevented from being heard—within modern legal frameworks