Unfortunately, not every case has a happy ending. We have at times come across legitimate heirs who have not been willing to accept their inheritance, but never before had the rejected inheritance been worth more than 1 million Euros.

A German genealogical office had for years been following the trace of a Polish man who had emigrated to Germany, had later moved to Great Britain and finally to New Zealand. They had written a letter to the man, informing him about his entitlement to inheritance, whereupon he answered that he was not interested.  

Our partners assumed that this could be connected to the heir’s possible Jewish descent, which allegedly caused him to regard letters from Germany with great suspicion due to events occurring during the Second World War. That is why they asked us to contact this man, as we have a Jewish colleague who might have been able to convince the heir in a personal conversation that he really was entitled to inheritance.