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Fast Forward Swiss Museum Will Take ‘Nazi’ Art Hoard
The Swiss art gallery named as the sole heir of reclusive German art collector Cornelius Gurlitt is to accept his bequest of masterpieces which include works looted by the Nazis from Jews, a Swiss paper reported on Sunday. Gurlitt, who died in May aged 81, had secretly stored hundreds of works by the likes of…
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Fast Forward Vienna Philharmonic Will Digitize Archives Revealing Nazi Past
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, which acknowledged decades after the fact that many of its players had been Nazi party members, will use a $1 million grant to digitalise and find a new home for its archives, it was announced on Wednesday. The announcement by the orchestra’s management was made in Stockholm where the orchestra was…
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Fast Forward New American Ambassador to Czech Republic Recalls Family Ties
Andrew Schapiro highlighted his family’s ties to the Czech Republic as he took over as the U.S. ambassador there. Schapiro, 51, a Chicago lawyer, handed his credentials to the Czech president on Tuesday. His late mother, Raya, was born in Prague in 1934 and fled to the United States in 1939 after the country then…
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Fast Forward Nazi-Hunters Finger 80 Death Squad Members
Video: Nate Lavey The Simon Wiesenthal Center has sent the German government a list of 80 people it believes murdered Jews while serving in Nazi death squads in World War Two and who may be still alive, the head of the Israel office of the organization said. The push for an investigation into members of…
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Fast Forward Spanish Diplomat Honored as ‘Righteous’
Sebastian de Romero Radigales, a Spanish diplomat whose efforts saved hundreds of Jews in the Holocaust, was named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. His granddaughter Elena Colitto Castelli accepted the posthumous honor at a ceremony Tuesday at the Holocaust memorial and museum in Jerusalem. Among those on hand were Spain’s ambassador to Israel,…
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Fast Forward Vatican Chips in $135K to Auschwitz Preservation
The Vatican has joined 30 other states in contributing funding to help preserve the site of the former Auschwitz death camp. An announcement Monday on the website of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum said the Vatican will contribute $135,000 to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, which aims to raise $162 million to preserve the authentic remains of the…
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Culture How Sigmund Freud Almost Fell Victim to Repression and Denial
(Haaretz) — On March 13, 1938, the executive committee of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society met for the last time; it called on members of the group to flee Austria, which German troops had entered the day before. According to biographer Ernest Jones, Sigmund Freud opened his remarks by noting how, after the destruction of the…
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Culture The Banality of Himmler
Heinrich Himmler: Nazi, anti-Semite, lover, husband, father, workaholic. Mass Murderer. The genius of “The Decent One,” Vanessa Lapa’s disturbing new documentary about the man most directly responsible for the extermination of over six million Europeans, mostly Jews but also gypsies, gays and anyone else deemed unworthy by the Nazi regime, is that she in no…
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