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>JN Nov. 10, 1998, Vol. 6, No. 202
Jewish Group Finds Lists of Nazi Art Looters
Israel Faxx Staff Report
A Jewish group has found a list of 2,000 people involved in the Nazi looting of art during World War 2 and planned to make the list public. The World Jewish Congress said its researchers found the list in declassified documents in the National Archives, compiled by the Art Looting Investigations Unit of the Office of Strategic Services, which later became the CIA. The Nazi looting of art was unprecedented in history and according to Francis Taylor, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in 1945 the total value of the stolen art was about $2.5 billion in wartime prices -- more than the total value of all the art in the U.S.
Suicide Bomber's Father Proud
By IsraelWire
The father of one of the Islamic Jihad terrorists who died in the
suicide bombing of the crowded Jerusalem market said he was sad
about his son's death but proud of what he had done. Friday's
bombing at the open-air Machane Yehuda market killed the two
terrorists, injured 27 Israelis and jeopardized the 2-week-old
Israeli-PLO Authority Wye memorandum.
The terror group Hamas claimed responsibility for attacking the
market swarming with shoppers readying for the Sabbath, but PA
security officials blamed members of the Islamic Jihad. One of the
dead bombers was identified as Yusef al-Zughayar, who lived in
an area under Israeli control. His family said he was 22 and
acknowledged he was active in Islamic Jihad.
At Zughayar's house near the Anata refugee camp, dozens of friends
and relatives gathered today to mourn, although they could not hold
a funeral because the body had not been handed over by Israeli
authorities. "I didn't raise him to lose him like that," said
Zughayar's 54-year-old father, Mohammed. "I'm proud, but I'm sad
because I loved my son."
Torah Scroll Makes it From Hell to Israel
By IsraelWire
A Torah scroll which was pulled from a burning synagogue in Germany 60 years ago on Kristallnacht, has made its way to Israel as a testimony of the events that transpired. The Torah has been donated to the Ghetto Fighters' Museum, where it will remain on display for posterity.
The late Yosef Shover saved the Torah from the burning synagogue
and asked that after his death, it be given to the museum. Prior to
his death, the scroll was used in the "Ilanit" Synagogue in Haifa.
The family told museum officials, "For daddy, it was important the
Torah remains guarded as a testimony of the hell that he and his
friends endured."
60th Anniversary of Kristallnacht
By Suzanne Kelly (VOA-Bonn)
Religious and political leaders in Germany observed
a painful anniversary Monday as Jewish groups marched in
remembrance of "Kristallnacht," the Night of the Broken Glass.
On Nov. 9, 1938 sounds of broken glass shattered a
quiet Berlin night. Adolf Hitler's Nazi Storm Troopers smashed
windows and burned businesses owned by Jews. It was the Nazis
way of getting revenge for the shooting of a German diplomat in
Paris by a young Jewish man. But the sounds of horror from that
night still ring clearly in the ears of German Jews today.
But on this Nov. 9 there is another group taking to the streets -- Jewish organizations themselves. More than 70,000 people marchED to remember what has become known as the "Night of the Broken Glass."
It was the eve of the murders of several hundred people in Germany and Austria -- and the days that followed saw close to 30,000 Jewish men sent to concentration camps.
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, President Roman Herzog, and Jewish Community leader Ignatz Bubis marked the occasion with a ceremony in Berlin.
But this year's anniversary holds an air of tension, not simply because of the horrors of that night 60 years ago, but also because it is the last before the German government moves back to Berlin, and back into many of the buildings which once served as headquarters of the Nazi government.
Schroeder -- the country's first post-war chancellor with no personal memory of the war -- said in a German television interview that remembering this night is critical to realizing it will never happen again.
Ironically, Nov. 9 Also marks another anniversary in Germany, the falling of the Berlin Wall in 1989. That event itself set the stage for the government's return to the capital city.
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