Nearly eight decades after the Holocaust, a German museum curator has made it his mission to return silver objects stolen by the Nazis to Jewish families around the globe.
Matthias Weniger, curator of the Bavarian National Museum, lifts one of the 111 silver objects stolen by the Nazis from the Jews during the Third Reich, in Munich, Germany, Saturday, June 10, 2023. Museum staff have made it their mission to return as many of the silver objects as possible to the descendants of the original owners.
What started with anti-Jewish discrimination and persecution in 1933, after the Nazis were voted to power in Germany, led to the murder of 6 million European Jews and others in the Holocaust before World War II ended with Germany’s surrender in 1945. “Therefore it’s really important to try to find the families and give back the objects to them,” he added.
Once Weniger discovers the names of the original owners, he starts looking up Jewish obituary and genealogy databases, in hopes that direct descendants or more distant relatives may have posted their names online. There, Weniger met up with Hila Gutmann, 53, and her father Benjamin Gutmann, 86, at his home in Kfar Shmaryahu north of Tel Aviv, and gave them a small silver cup.
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