Heidi Horten's husband Helmut Horten was a member of the Nazi party and took over businesses abandoned by persecuted Jewish owners during the war
Christie's has canceled the second auction of jewels belonging to an Austrian billionaire, whose German husband made his fortune under the Nazis, following"intense scrutiny," it said Friday. The auction house held a first controversial online and in-person sale in Geneva of part of the large stash of more than 700 jewels in May, and had been scheduled to hold a second round in November.
This photograph taken on May 8, 2023, shows Christie's international head of jewellery, Rahul Kadakia, speaking on his phone behind a display case of jewels during a press preview of the"World of Heidi Horten" sales in Geneva.
"The reaction to it has deeply affected us and many others, and we will continue to reflect on it," it said.A large number of Jewish groups had asked Christie's to halt the initial Horten sale in May, describing it as"indecent" and demanding that the auction house do more to determine how much of it came from victims of the Nazis.
A report published in January 2022 by historians commissioned by the Horten Foundation said Horten's husband Helmut Horten, who died in Switzerland in 1987, had been a member of the Nazi party before being expelled.In 1936, three years after Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, Horten took over textile company Alsberg, based in the western city of Duisburg, after its Jewish owners fled. He later took over several other shops that had belonged to Jewish owners before the war.
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