As a stolen silver sleuth, German curator returns heirlooms Jewish families lost in the Holocaust
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A German museum curator has made it his mission to return silver objects stolen by the Nazis to Jewish families around the globe nearly eight decades after the Holocaust. The Nazis took thousands of silver pieces from German Jews in 1939. Most were melted to help the country's war effort.
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A German museum curator has made it his mission to return silver objects stolen by the Nazis to Jewish families around the globe nearly eight decades after the Holocaust. The Nazis took thousands of silver pieces from German Jews in 1939. Most were melted to help the country's war effort.
Matthias Weniger has made it his mission to give back silver objects that 'are often the only material things that remain from an existence wiped out in the Holocaust'
A museum curator has made it his mission to return silver objects stolen by the Nazis from German Jews during the Holocaust. Matthias Wagner has already returned 50 pieces to descendants and hopes to double this amount.
Matthias Weniger, The curator of the Bavarian National Museum, has made it his mission to return as many heirlooms that were lost by Jewish families during the Holocaust as he can.
Matthias Weniger, a curator at the Bavarian National Museum, is looking to return dozens of silver objects the Nazis stole from Jews during the Third Reich in 1939 back to the descendants of the original owners.
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