He estimates that 3,000 of the 35,000 Radom Jews survived the Holocaust, and today, there are more than 1,000 in New York and 600 in Israel. Like most of the Jews who fled Poland, Samuel Reich does not stand to gain much even if he is able to get his property back. The tenement of some 30 apartments near central Radom will be worth only what investment he puts into it, and mayor Wlodarczyk says new construction would be cheaper. There is no real-estate market in Radom, he said. Apartments built in the 1980s are selling for one-fifth of their value.
Supply exceeds demand.
Reich, informed by Newsday of the finding, took it in stride. My attachment is emotional, he said. It is an inheritance. We don't need it. And he seemed willing to take up the mayor's invitation for a visit.