Matthias Weniger, curator of the Bavarian National Museum, lifts one of the 111 silver objects stolen by the Nazis from the Jews during the Third Reich, in Munich, Germany, on June 10, 2023. Museum staff have made it their mission to return as many of the silver objects as possible to the descendants of the original owners.Â
Matthias Weniger, curator of the Bavarian National Museum, lifts one of the 111 silver objects stolen by the Nazis from the Jews during the Third Reich. Says Hila Gutman: “He treats these little objects with so much care � like they are holy.�
Some of the 111 silver objects stolen by the Nazis from the Jews during the Third Reich, stand at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich, Germany, on June 10, 2023. Â
Matthias Weniger, curator of the Bavarian National Museum, shows one of the 111 registered silver objects stolen by the Nazis from the Jews during the Third Reich, in Munich, Germany, on June 10, 2023. Â
Hundreds of items â€� a treasure trove of silver, menorahs, candle sticks, makeup jars and tableware â€� were discovered underground in a wooden box during a renovation of a home in Lodz, Poland. They were likely hidden generations ago by their Jewish owners, who probably hoped to one day retrie…
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 silver objects at the Bavarian National Museum that the Nazis stole from Jewish families during the Third Reich in 1939. That’s when they ordered all German Jews to bring their personal silver objects to pawn shops across the Reich � one of many laws created to humiliate, punish and exclude Jews.
Matthias Weniger, curator of the Bavarian National Museum, lifts one of the 111 silver objects stolen by the Nazis from the Jews during the Third Reich, in Munich, Germany, on June 10, 2023. Museum staff have made it their mission to return as many of the silver objects as possible to the descendants of the original owners.Â
Matthias Weniger, curator of the Bavarian National Museum, lifts one of the 111 silver objects stolen by the Nazis from the Jews during the Third Reich. Says Hila Gutman: “He treats these little objects with so much care � like they are holy.�
Some of the 111 silver objects stolen by the Nazis from the Jews during the Third Reich, stand at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich, Germany, on June 10, 2023. Â
Matthias Weniger, curator of the Bavarian National Museum, shows one of the 111 registered silver objects stolen by the Nazis from the Jews during the Third Reich, in Munich, Germany, on June 10, 2023. Â
Photos: Stolen silver heirlooms headed back to descendants
Art historian Matthias Weniger, from the Bavarian National Museum arranges silver owned by Jews, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on June 1, 2023. The German curator has made it his mission to return a treasure trove of priceless silver objects stolen by the Nazis to Jewish families around the globe.
Ariel Schalit, Associated Press
Art historian Matthias Weniger, from the Bavarian National Museum, holds silver glass by Jews, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on June 1, 2023.Â
Ariel Schalit, Associated Press
Art historian Matthias Weniger, from the Bavarian National Museum shows silver art objects owned by Jewish relatives of Orna Lavy Flint, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on June 1, 2023. Â
Ariel Schalit, Associated Press
Matthias Weniger, curator of the Bavarian National Museum, shows a catalogue of silver objects stolen by the Nazis from the Jews during the Third Reich, in Munich, Germany, on June 10, 2023. Museum staff have made it their mission to return as many of the silver objects as possible to the descendants of the original owners.Â
Matthias Schrader, Associated Press
Matthias Weniger, curator of the Bavarian National Museum, lifts one of the 111 silver objects stolen by the Nazis from the Jews during the Third Reich, in Munich, Germany, on June 10, 2023. Museum staff have made it their mission to return as many of the silver objects as possible to the descendants of the original owners. Â
Matthias Schrader, Associated Press
Matthias Weniger, curator of the Bavarian National Museum, lifts one of the 111 silver objects stolen by the Nazis from the Jews during the Third Reich. Says Hila Gutman: “He treats these little objects with so much care � like they are holy.�
Matthias Schrader, Associated Press
Matthias Weniger, curator of the Bavarian National Museum, shows one of the 111 registered silver objects stolen by the Nazis from the Jews during the Third Reich, in Munich, Germany, on June 10, 2023. Â
Matthias Schrader, Associated Press
Some of the 111 silver objects stolen by the Nazis from the Jews during the Third Reich, stand at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich, Germany, on June 10, 2023. Museum staff have made it their mission to return as many of the silver objects as possible to the descendants of the original owners. Â
Matthias Schrader, Associated Press
Matthias Weniger, curator of the Bavarian National Museum, holds one of the 111 silver registered objects stolen by the Nazis from the Jews during the Third Reich, in Munich, Germany, on June 10, 2023. Museum staff have made it their mission to return as many of the silver objects as possible to the descendants of the original owners. Â
Matthias Schrader, Associated Press
Some of the 111 silver objects stolen by the Nazis from the Jews during the Third Reich, stand at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich, Germany, on June 10, 2023. Museum staff have made it their mission to return as many of the silver objects as possible to the descendants of the original owners. Â
Matthias Schrader, Associated Press
Matthias Weniger, curator of the Bavarian National Museum, lifts one of the 111 silver objects stolen by the Nazis from the Jews during the Third Reich, in Munich, Germany, on June 10, 2023. Museum staff have made it their mission to return as many of the silver objects as possible to the descendants of the original owners.Â
Matthias Schrader, Associated Press
Some of the 111 silver objects stolen by the Nazis from the Jews during the Third Reich, stand at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich, Germany, on June 10, 2023. Â
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