WASHINGTON (AP).- Joseph Finkelstein had never seen a photograph of his grandfather. The family had no idea when he died or where he was buried. Finkelstein’s father last saw him on April 28, 1945, when they were separated at Mathaussen Concentration …
US Museum Seeks to Identify Children of Holocaust
WASHINGTON (AP).- The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is trying to identify more than 1,000 children in photos that date from when they were scattered across Europe at the end of World War II and taken in by relief agencies. The museum’s “Remember Me”…
New Online Resource Debuts for Nazi-Era Looted Art, Estimates Half of Objects Not Yet Returned
NEW YORK (AP).- The Nazis stripped hundreds of thousands of artworks from Jews during World War II in one of the biggest cultural raids in history, often photographing their spoils and meticulously cataloguing them on typewritten index cards. Holocaust…
New Online Resource Debuts for Nazi-Era Looted Art
NEW YORK (AP).- The Nazis stripped hundreds of thousands of artworks from Jews during World War II in one of the biggest cultural raids in history, often photographing their spoils and meticulously cataloguing them on typewritten index cards. Holocaust…
United States Museum Slams Romania for ‘Anti-Semitic’ Coin
BUCHAREST (AP).- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum says the refusal of Romania’s central bank to withdraw a coin with an image of a prime minister who stripped Jews of their citizenship before World War II is “insensitive” to the memory of H…
United States Museum Slams Romania for ‘Anti-Semitic’ Coin
BUCHAREST (AP).- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum says the refusal of Romania’s central bank to withdraw a coin with an image of a prime minister who stripped Jews of their citizenship before World War II is “insensitive” to the memory of H…
Holocaust Museum to Romania: Scrap ‘Racist’ Coin
BUCHAREST (AP).- Romania’s central bank has issued a special coin commemorating a prime minister and religious leader who stripped Jews of their citizenship before World War II. The coin has prompted protest from a director at the U.S. Holocaust Memori…