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Fast Forward French Jews Win Ban on Hitler Memento Auction
Following protests by two Jewish groups, a Paris auction house canceled an auction of Nazi objects. The Maison Vermont de Pas auction house nixed the April 26 sale on Monday following the protests by the National Bureau for Vigilance against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA, and the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities. The objects included…
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Fast Forward Vienna Orchestra To Return Looted Painting
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra will return to a French family a valuable painting that was looted by the Nazis and given to the orchestra as a gift in 1940 by a Viennese secret police official. The heirs of the painting’s late owner, Marcel Koch, will receive “Port-en-Bessin” by neo-Impressionist Paul Signac at a ceremony this…
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Fast Forward German Court Gives $1B ‘Looted’ Art Trove Back to Recluse
A German court released on Wednesday an art trove valued at $1 billion to an elderly recluse who had kept it stashed away for decades in his flat before its confiscation in a tax probe. The decision followed an agreement by Cornelius Gurlitt, 81, to cooperate with German authorities to determine if some of the…
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Fast Forward How 764 Jews Jumped From Moving Shoah Trains To Escape Death Camps
At least 764 Jews managed to escape the Holocaust by jumping out of moving trains on their way to the death camps, new historical research shows. “I was amazed that this happened at all,” Tanja von Fransecky, a German historian, told the Independendent newspaper.) “I had always assumed that the wagons were stuffed full prior…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Ghetto Workers Get Retroactive Pensions
Germany has approved retroactive pension payments, going back to 1997, to all Holocaust survivors who worked in Nazi ghettos. The aim was to find a more just compensation for both slave laborers and those who were paid something at the time. The Federal Cabinet announced the change on Monday. The amended ghetto pension law, which…
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Fast Forward Austrian Candidate Who Called Nazis ‘Liberal’ Quits Race
A far-right Austrian candidate for a seat on the European Parliament withdrew from the race over remarks in which he called Nazi Germany more liberal than the E.U. Andreas Moelzer, a candidate from the far-right Freedom Party, withdrew his candidacy on Tuesday, Reuters reported. Austrian Jewish leader Oskar Deutsch, president of the Federation of Jewish…
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News Tiny Greek Community of Ioannina Struggles To Keep Romaniote Traditions Alive
(JTA) — When the Jews of Ioannina gathered in their whitewashed-stone synagogue over the weekend, it was to commemorate 70 years since the Nazis destroyed their community. But the March 30 gathering also served to highlight a source of present-day sadness: the withering of the unique 2,300 year-old Romaniote Jewish tradition. Ioannina, a postcard-pretty town…
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News Hungary ‘Yellow Star Houses’ Project Spotlights Complicity With Nazi Invaders
(JTA) — In 1944, Andras Szasz’s mother obtained an admittance slip to a Red Cross children’s home that she hoped would save her 8-year-old son from the Hungarian fascists then prowling Budapest in search of Jews to torture or kill. Szasz never made it to the home. In the summer of 1944, he and his…
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