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Breaking News 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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Breaking News 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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Breaking News 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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Breaking News 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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Breaking News Britain’s Tate Gallery To Return Nazi-Looted Painting
Britain’s Tate Gallery said it would return a Nazi-looted painting to the heirs of an art collector from Hungary. The gallery announced on March 27 that it would return the 1824 painting “Beaching a Boat, Brighton” by John Constable. The artwork had been loaned to museums in the United States as late as 2006, The…
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Breaking News Czech Minister: ‘Not That Much Happened’ During Nazi Occupation
Czech Justice Minister Helena Valkova is facing harsh criticism for saying nothing much happened during the Nazi occupation of her country. Valkova, whose father is an ethnic German and who grew up in a bilingual home, made the statement in an interview which was published on the news website echo24.cz Asked about her views on…
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