ABC7 San Francisco

Heirlooms stolen from Jewish families during WWII returned to descendants

HOUSTON, Texas -- Hundreds of valuable silver heirlooms confiscated from Jews during World War II are being returned to descendants of Holocaust survivors across the world, thanks to a museum curator ...
The Village Voice

Restitution: The Silver That Survived Kristallnacht

On Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass,” during WWII, November 1938, Jewish homes, hospitals, and schools were ransacked as Nazis demolished buildings with sledgehammers and rioters destroyed ...
The Forward

In Germany, a Jewish family is reunited with a treasured family object — but also a sense of exile

In 2022, an email arrived from Dr. Matthias Weniger, curator at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich, asking Gaby Gropman if she was the granddaughter of Sigmund Marx. “Yes” was the reply, whereupon ...
Albany Democrat-Herald

German curator on wrenching mission to return stolen silver heirlooms to Jewish families

MUNICH — Matthias Weniger put on a pair of white cloth gloves and carefully lifted a tarnished silver candleholder, looking for a yellowed sticker on the bottom of it. The candlestick is one of 111 ...