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Fast Forward Hungarian Jewish Poet’s Statue Struck By a Car, Breaks in Half
A statue of Hungarian Jewish poet Miklos Radnoti, who was killed by Hungarian Nazis at the end of 1944, was broken in two parts after being struck by a car. The Radnoti statue in the village of Abda, in western Hungary, was either hit on purpose or by a drunken driver on Sunday, a police…
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Opinion Reclaiming the Swastika, One Tattoo at a Time
(JTA) — As the sun began to set over Copenhagen, Peter Madsen realized he would not be able to serve the dozens of people still waiting in his shop for a free swastika tattoo. “We had to stop taking in people after the 54th client,” Madsen, artistic designer at the Meatshop tattoo parlor, said on Tuesday…
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Fast Forward Looted Jewish Art Story Takes Spy Novel Twist — With Nazi Punchline
(JTA) — The extraordinary disclosure last week that a trove of more than 1,400 vanished artworks were found in a Munich apartment has raised more questions than it has answered. What were these works, which were produced by masters such as Chagall, Matisse and Picasso? Who are their rightful owners? And where is Cornelius Gurlitt,…
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Fast Forward Nazi-Looted $1.3B Jewish Art Trove Going Online
Germany began publishing an online list on Tuesday of works that were discovered in a huge art stash in a Munich flat last year and believed for the most part to have been stolen or extorted by the Nazis. The move was welcomed by lawyers representing families whose looted art was feared forever gone. But…
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Fast Forward Israel Chief Rabbi Marks Kristallnacht Anniversary in Berlin
Israel’s chief Ashkenazi rabbi marked the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht with a visit to a Jewish kindergarten in Berlin. “Connecting Jews in Germany to their roots is the worthiest retort to the darkness that prevailed here 75 years ago,” Rabbi David Lau said during his first official visit to Berlin, where he went to the…
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Opinion Live Tweeting the Kristallnacht Pogroms
Exactly 75 years ago, between November 7 and 13, 1938, a wave of anti-Semitic pogroms swept across Germany and Austria. This year, a group of German historians chose to commemorate the events, which marked a turning point in the Nazi’s persecution of Jews, using an unconventional medium: Twitter. On October 28, the five historians who…
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Fast Forward Romania’s Anti-Nazi King Michael Feted on 92nd Birthday
Hundreds of Romanians feted former King Michael’s 92nd birthday on Friday and streamed into his palace in the capital Bucharest to pay respects to the monarch who was forced to abdicate by Soviet-backed communists more than six decades ago. Some 1,500 people chanted his name as Michael waved from a balcony of the white Elisabeta…
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News German Owner of $1.3B Looted Jewish Art Trove Hid in Plain Sight for Decades
On the doorbell of the apartment in Munich’s bohemian Schwabing district is a name once distinguished for architecture and music but infamous since the Nazi era by association with the plundering of art works owned by Jews: Gurlitt. The discovery of hundreds of priceless paintings and drawings within has raised questions about how a man…
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