3a. You represent the Government of Norway. During W.W.II, Nazi Germany occupied Norway against its will. Half of the 1,500 strong Jewish community escaped to Sweden; the rest were deported to Auschwitz, almost all of whom perished there. All Jewish property was seized. After the war, Jews received some compensation from the Restitution Office in Norway and from Germany. After meetings with the World Jewish Congress, the Justice Ministry set up a panel to deal with compensation, but it has not drawn any clear conclusions.
Your position is that fifty years later, none of the persons involved in the confiscations is alive. Therefore, it is too difficult to establish claims of restitution. The money was simply absorbed by the Norwegian government, which had suffered at the hands of the Nazis. Everyone should just put the matter behind themselves.
3b. Your name is Bjorg Smith Fjelbert. (Bjorg is a female name) Your father owned a haberdashery in the Norwegian town of Tromso. He was deported in 1944 and killed by the Nazis. After his deportation, you were forced to live in a shack outside Oslo, taking only two pieces of furniture and a coffee pot. After the war, you approached the Restitution Office, which dealt with claims relating to the war. However, the bureaucrats there told you that you should be grateful to be alive. Eventually, you received a small sum of money as compensation from the Germans, but no one in Norway has ever acknowledged the injustice done to your family. The National Archives in Oslo has a file documenting your family's property which was seized.
Last year, a special panel dealing with compensation was set up, but so far it has not made any conclusive results. You feel that the government has not taken your claims seriously enough and just wants to sweep the matter under the carpet. Therefore, you are turning to this international court to rule that the Norwegian government be obliged to pay you compensation equal to the value of the property documented to have been compensated back in 1944.