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News French Jews Knew To Expect Worst After Kristallnacht
(JTA) — His hearing isn’t what it used to be, but Georges Loinger still remembers Adolf Hitler’s voice emanating from the radio at his Strasbourg home. Growing up in the heavily Germanic Alsace region of eastern France, Loinger and his family tuned in regularly to broadcasts of Hitler’s speeches. They heard his “electrifying voice” and…
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Fast Forward German Hotel Pulls Ad for ‘Romantic’ Kristallnacht on Anniversary of Nazi Pogrom
A German hotel apologized after running an ad for a “long, romantic Kristall-Nacht,” to be held on the anniversary of the Nazi pogrom against Jews and their institutions. Nov. 9 marks the 75th anniversary of the Nazi pogrom against Jews and their institutions, referred to in Germany as the Reichskristallnacht, or November Pogrom. After astonished…
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Fast Forward Picasso and Chagall Works Found in $1.3B Looted Munich Art Trove
A trove of Nazi-looted art found in a Munich flat included works dating from the 16th century to the modern period from artists such as Canaletto, Courbet, Picasso, Chagall and Toulouse-Lautrec, German authorities said on Tuesday. Customs officials discovered the roughly 1,400 art works during a search of the flat last year, said Siegfried Kloeble…
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Fast Forward Was Germany Complicit in Hiding $1.3B Trove of Art Looted by Nazis?
A Jewish group accused Germany on Monday of moral complicity in concealment of stolen paintings after it emerged authorities failed for two years to report discovery of a trove of art seized by the Nazis, including works by Picasso and Matisse. Customs officials’ chance discovery of 1,500 artworks in a Munich flat owned by the…
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News Meet Margot Friedlander, Berlin’s Unlikely 92-Year-Old Jewish Celebrity
By moving back to Berlin three years ago, Margot Friedlander, a 92-year-old Holocaust survivor, has become an unlikely celebrity in the land where she was once persecuted. In 1946, when she immigrated to New York with her husband, they both vowed never to set foot again in Germany. Most members of both their families were…
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Fast Forward Nazi Gestapo Chief Heinrich Muller Buried in Jewish Mass Grave
Gestapo chief Heinrich Muller was buried in a Jewish mass grave following World War II, a Berlin political scientist confirmed. Muller, who as head of Nazi Germany’s secret police helped organize the mass murder of Jews during the Holocaust, was buried with about 2,400 others, many unidentified, in the Jewish cemetery on Grosse Hamburgerstrasse in…
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Fast Forward Virtual Stumbling Blocks Holocaust Memorial to Jews Launched in Munich
A virtual Holocaust memorial has been launched to remember Jewish victims from Munich. Visitors to the Bavarian capital can now see the biographies of hundreds of Jewish victims of the Holocaust as they pass by their former homes, thanks to a new app launched last week called Stolpersteine Muenchen, or Munich Stumbling Blocks. Martina Bachmann,…
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Fast Forward German Synagogues Have Been Attacked Atleast 82 Times in Last Four Years
There have been 82 reported attacks on synagogues in Germany from 2008 to 2012, according to a report requested by Left Party legislator and Bundestag Vice President Petra Pau. But the reported number may actually be too low: An investigation by Germany’s main Jewish weekly, the Juedische Allgemeine, showed that several notable incidents were not…
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