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How a new tool in Lithuania helps people read letters from their Jewish ancestors
VILNIUS, Lithuania — At a family reunion in California in 2013, Felicita Trueblood discovered a portal to the past: a binder full of letters from her great-grandfather, a rabbi in Ukraine, from before World War II. As exciting as the discovery was, the letters were illegible to her — until now, thanks to an artificial […]
Argentine court orders return of Nazi-looted painting to Jewish collector’s heir
BUENOS AIRES – A Dutch journalist hunting for art treasures belonging to an Amsterdam Jewish art dealer spent years trying to get answers from Patricia Kadgien, the daughter of the Nazi financier who had made off with some of them, with no luck. So last year he went to her house in Mar del Plata, […]
