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the unreasonable stock for designs i want my son to become a doctor to in the canal. it's time to to and then when generation class the, [000:00:00;00] the children's bedding a small ink. well, i'm an oil painting with a gold drain. i'm and i'm going what's going twice, going 3 times from underwear to valuable. everything was sort of, knots is used options to generate millions replenished
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a war chest hunt for bonds in which let no stone unturned glow. be shown the signal from this go home. this life think it was an open secret issue that everything here which was the jewish property, was sold with a club like auction in defend. people could figure out that they're real loaners hadn't gone on a holiday or to a health resort. bob and the items belong to jews in the knots, who said forced to flee the country with their belongings packed in. so quote, a lift fence they hope to build a new life in exile. but off to the world again. very few of these crates went to the earnest here in hamburg, southwest hall, the thousands of crates were stranded from all over the german rush, the nazis confiscated them and auctioned off the contents. goods that were meant to shipment when tons of a home in raymond, to most of the stone objects, a still missing
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the the catcher. the tribal is one of the few 100 providence researches in germany. she's determined to result the case of nazi losing once referral. true gym and fashion, the records back event, meticulous. been an option that's a step down to $3000.00 households were auctioned off at home, but i'm more frustrated. and just under $1000.00 more were auctioned off and paid in 1st i got phones and then that makes a total of $4000.00 complete household whose contents were auctioned on strike of funds. and it's easy to see that this amounts to millions of individual items. i'll check the actual libels searches for clues. she's on emissions for
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justice. from you, the families already had a hard time leaving their homeland and once they arrived overseas, for instance in america, they waited for their belongings to arrive and nothing came. the major goal is to eventually return these objects to their family, everything for me and thoughts of a difficult task and one that the defendants of the families have long been hoping for mostly in vain. the injustice suffered by the cook family 80 years ago is still in the grandson's mind. today. we're going to be interested in where the subjects would. where did my grandparents belongs and doctors on that process. these questions don't get a moment please kind of willis. he hopes clinicals research provides answers. hello, hello. hello. good morning. it's nice to see, you know, so it's,
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it's nice to meet with such as symbolic place. oh yeah. they could, the grandparents belongings, which included a valuable odd collection, were also sold in a so called lift fans. how many lift vans and crates that your family have as we should buy it for. i know one big ones or then one smaller one. i'm cuz i thought i should have been too cheap. so i the nazis rose to pallet in 1933. although hitting his transcripts to him, a nation will make clear from the stalls that was still a window of opportunity for the jewish population to leave the country. those who predicted what was coming and could afford to fled abroad. but in 1941, that window closed difficult. anyone who made it out of germany believe they would be re united with their belongings,
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provided they had paid the transport in advance. the costs were meant that many of the crates never reach their owners. so naturally to see you was of course, the goal of the national socialists not only took the course of the jewish minority out of the country conflict, but also to completely disenfranchise and plunder them financially. and in that respect, respect, there was little incentive to ship them. their property in the 1st place didn't know the hit. so she called family came from the spot in the old could talk to took an early interest in not when she bought together with his wife. he died 1933 east children's flight to london, soon to be joined by their mother. lot of positions which included the families of collection, which was followed by way of handbook southwest hall, but that was the promise that they never made it to london in 1941 had books as were confiscations,
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photos of memories don't 2 months as life's worth of objects disappeared so full of money in the end, everything was taken from the doctor is showing that his criminal, terrible foolish. i don't really know where it's about enough to describe us in the hub is the gestapo confiscated goods that we meant to shipping an option to them off. even use papers, advertised opportunities to purchase cheap foods. i'm call for the affordable gramaphone and oil painting circuit. 175056 books and shop. here in the handbook state, archives kitchen pliable meticulously searches through option rate,
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quotes the nonsense for good keeping. keep central. so here we go. ads and objects, the individual contents of the live in or neatly listed here. and, and you always had the name of the object standard in the, in the name of the person who bought it. he had some must here for example, it's the museum of phonology and what was offered for the object or group of items in question. and it goes on here page by page, this one he has was from say, art object needs to books. everything was more or less sort of shines like the bed linen and the bedframe, the special on cookware and so on costco. so once a vice research is funded by the gym and most out foundation, what she seeks to establishes, who was wrong, who was the behind and where are the items now from beginning from for lesson to from the beginning of an objects journey. because when it left its owners house with the moving company to the moment, it was stored with the bailiff, tact was
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a drop of the auction and you know us language. so it's here and it basically listens who bought what, okay, and for how much take on so that we get an overview of can just to verify sca cove talk to the fuse where they private persons were they dealers feedback because wounds and what happened to the objects and after that was checked and done by top to see a much like a detective. caution client will gather all the clues in atlanta based on the student gun, some flu tight. and from these puzzle pieces, i think we can trace the task of a lift fan from its starting point, or leading the house to at the point of sales and homework. now 14 tribal works is a provenance research here with the gym and maritime museum in 3 and a half. and the
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job is to find out was that the items in the museums collection were quad, legally the nazis also auctioned off personal effects from jewish household. see, improvement, that's how club and 1st became aware of this injustice a tablet as me off the phone. that's, it's dramatically that this whole topic of jewish microns property being auctioned off in freeman and homework number, where we've been dealt with concepts business for all of us who bought which items that these auction you know, a forced foundation gate. and this has never been researched because even though it were all in the document and not from days and fail for many people attended the options, not just dealers in private individuals, but also numerous handbook, museums. today they a cooperation with cultural classes research, for example, installer museums for
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a painting that option and is now looking for the rightful owners and as the comb vanna, to distrust the dream, of course, is that this room will eventually be empty. that we can allocate all these items to their former owners and their rightful errors and return nothing can the, this man's grandparents guild and law shall come from the spot and also own valuable paintings which has never been returned. his family inquired about the missing items early on. at 1st they were told they had been in sooner. i said during foaming license, they was stumped because there were no records. but the grandson consisted and managed to find clues, leading to a painting, once owned by his family boss with puppies. bye. know the restaurant is
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a definitely dauntless individual. people just set everything in motion again, the main stance that the painting so actually disappeared or had been destroyed by fire, pressure rooms and understood phones and they must actually still exist somewhere else. i just don't know for room for exist in your honda plus sheets key is from the in the family est. it was also prompted the husband hammond, who was open to department store in berlin, had left his fortune to his wife. the loving family had bought pieces by beckman lieberman brock and schmidt, brooklyn's artists who were doing museums today. the villa in darling was taken notice of as a national socialist with a trained journalist loyal to the right. you'll have to push it sky, sol, what was coming and fled to los angeles in the us site.
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she hope the contents of the household would fine, except they never arrived. her property was sold off in handbook and an option that lasted 3 days. the homeless sale, 1500 times actually tribal is still amazed by this case today. it's come. no, i to people came from berlin from hanover to buy it this auction and they weren't ordinary people. they were people who had been bombed out. they were traitors who turned a profit from buying these objects cheaply. i'm also, and a 1st i go home of to the was you'll hon. associated sky wanted to print the back. she had photos to prove what belong to her. and what would be looted by the nazis, but only
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a few items would ever return to the libel is researching the case. she's painstakingly reconstructing the old chips journeys and the hopes of finally sold in this case of theft. this is not a commission job. it's about jim and kills and justice in parking and food on this side of pictures shows is the furniture from your honda pal should skis. how was the corresponding item number in the auction record and put a 2 into them, often flushed idols, potable coin much my bill is i'm of now. they're even complete shots of the living rooms. all object is we also fund objects that worse bond with the auction record. ios portable quite a bit of it, a few and clicking on that annoying. let's take a look at this 11. 09 fine. what would it be an, an impact on layout for not a beat of my a crown was bought by maya for $760.00 hide small distances. highest lock
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sets for the price was estimated at $200.00. this is done with, with to so that would have been this lab here. with the help of the lawyer johan approach should ski managed to identify sushi to bargain hunters. they all denied any responsibility. and oh gosh, i don't sophistic, my client does not recognize a duty of restitution they had to do. she acquired all items in question here. i mean autumn at an auction held by the onboard bailiffs office without having the slightest idea they might be too much property. and this was, i'm 200 and printer and she basically every file size, same thing you haven't, i have no more records of special. we are not aware of the go have, we have nothing at all to do with this summit and something along those lines on
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the feel. the files of the risk that you should proceedings stored here in the attic of what is now the handbook district court. your can new title research has them. he wanted to know how the state pays towards the injured parties and came across the pushes ski case. guess what types of huge numbers on this because especially if it's filed with a big strap around it, it must have to open it when done. and then these photos of the state in berlin with these incredible artworks jumped out of me. good, i'll be some quinn's today. it was an astonishing find patients who passed because it's very, very rare and restitution files that people still have photos of their properties and phone images. it took a few photographs, their furniture moved, but it was just so exceptional, but i had to look into it to find copeland. so the victims including johan up, so should ski, there's more stakes and just that possessions i unconsciously american just need to tell it was important to to fix those. but they not only got the property back when the german courts also acknowledged that they had wrong. the in isn't that doesn't always happen because the courts were more concerned with contracts,
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so sums of money into like a government issued for tag. oh my god, gave it away to close scrutiny and regulation. the quote, i think with us in 1965 up to 17 years, you'll have to push it ski was compensated by the federal republic of germany with 960000 torch marks on condition that she truck all the claims a laughable sum compared to the original value of her estate finish for p as in file. it was a solution to me, was that the states then actually stepped into the show. the death of private individuals was repaired. but the states on this way of political forward that was a political decision in order to prevent the link. the social discourse edge of golf, we estimate was that there are about 100000 buyers in hamburg alone. that's not just a view, doesn't people from some small french group was to be able to give you what would have happened. this is active discourse that actually taking the language and
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listen to this day. many paintings from your hand. a precious gets processed collection a classified as lost and continues to search for them with the help of a little some in munich is concerned with move and then finding out and fresh interest and so on. if he's interested in his family history or what happened to his grandparents, especially to his grandmother was more to one of hearts is not to he asks himself is the where have all these objects? golf is on child of to look at the photos from that time, told the witness great villain dollar evict these, which was furnished with beautiful objects of art of just thought it was. and where has all of his family history gone? does a concept somebody didn't receive to complete
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a lifetime of pain and loss. this chinese put ahead was a quad in paris, an auctioned off by the national socialists. and the images of pend, here we have that. i talk one old head items 166265 acquired by the museum of acknowledging, according to the school board, 5 from from the bid was 505 small. got them? not too sure. and there's also an invoice to the museum of phonology about him called but later in the postwar period, during the restitution negotiations behind them didn't carpet. his head was apparently lost on on and thus lockwood on them. that was probably due to a clerical error in the rest of teaching records. let's see. don't tell where it was listed as an old hot. and so when they looked through the record long because they couldn't find the head and didn't quite finish before they didn't have the head, didn't actually disappear. at the end of 2020, it showed up on display in the form of museum as
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a technology and handbook now named monk. it should been on loosely stored in a just a few years until it was broken out for an arctic suspicion. tribal scene for the 1st time to beautiful as because i fix to be honest, i imagined it would be much smaller. it's great to finally see it in real life and not just in picture to the now the long las boot ahead will finally be returned to your hand. up for sheets skis is the, the museum was a very familiar with the name. so should ski, because it had already returned 6 objects to its own off to the war, but not the boat to hit
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the chip from cotton climb trees and museums attention to it. this con, plus the end of the object. it can happen that in these large depos objects, it for a very long time before they are brought in for a project. that's the way it works in big museums. we all wish we could simply process it ourselves, but that's and illusions. and so as it would take too much time, it's a lifelong talent. seeds of a little secret. if you see, i don't find that it's an excuse you want to slip over the daughter of the federal republic of germany committed to caring out this research and the washington declaration. and so it's the responsibility of the state, including the cultural senator and hamburg, was in to ensure that they are adequate resources. also providence research option for as long as they committed to this and must honor this commitment to the stone
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you should put face to move. i noticed the boat ahead was tracked down thanks to the joint efforts of caution chronicle and mock. it's the fitness piece and tribals research projects to be returned the tech job. this is conditions that the impossible can be made possible. obviously we can track down the looted belongings and we covered them for thousands of families and people here and i mentioned to click ones to put you on this. and we're lucky here that mark is a public institution group. so it is possible to find these items on us and forces workers, which would probably be much more difficult to do if they were in private household size and we're trying to relax, fee of online. but this is the case of the missing e mail. know the painting owned by the cock family. the grandson painstakingly
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searches for more clues passed through many hands off to being port my casualty. last auction christy's the auction house also tried to sell it in vain. it was delivered to my gallery in keels. eventually it was sold by austria to france, but nobody will say who has it now the when hunting and there's, there's the impression that people are stonewalling. this information is not being laid out in the table and there is no transparency. whereas they only sharing this information after 4 or 56 inquiries, one not right away. like the know the wasn't the only work in the caf families collection. it also includes the author of valuable paintings such as a yep, lensky, a clay, a role. today they
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a certain that all of these artworks will just be honest estrada from the historical research institute. fax and files is trying to reconstruct the cruise from umus paintings from the cups the states. but the keel gallery claims that it no longer has any documents that could shed much on the matcher. as mine off how, from my experience with our dealer archives, i can't imagine that they threw away all their documents in 1980 and they don't have them anymore as, as every art dealer knows, that documentation is the be all and end all of their business. so you always know what you had, who you got it from and who you sold it to months my calls to do to yeah, i just make good tired findings or why aren't they telling the truth and you're good for your to the and then dustless, talked into why are they trying to mislead us and to the time they shouldn't voice the suggest that the people involved knew that there was something wrong with how the painting had to be in acquire, to pass him. don't touch actually show us what the piece had been stolen. that's as
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integrate to this day, most of the positions belong to the expelled jewish community, a missing minions of all, checks, everything that was due to them that they had hoped to take wisdom to begin. the new lives was sold off at options when anyone could get the hands on them. it's a suspicion task. libel is working her way through mountains of files to funds and names of injured parties. as it gets finished after a little over a year of looking on this list all but ive regions the letter and let me just a boost of it in and they'll come, doesn't own goofy so far this. that's approximately 121700 names of victims from hom, board from the sheet is not the homework. my candy, i must get a hold of them together like this. and as you can see, i have completed just over half of the list and come on this as an investment the
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so my guess would be there's about $2700.00 names in total. and then the lucid prophecy and the names of the victims will be published in a da suffice need then can the owners and there is a certain times where has the cost out collection gone? the grand son will keep searching as long as he can shop. bmw is often laguna to one customization. i said to myself, who if a generation doesn't do this anymore? if i don't at least try to get to the bottom of this, nothing will happen. this chapter of history will be buried forever to vanish into oblivion. on purpose of doing good, fresh water. up a lighted search for justice ketchum club will won't give up, trying to write the roles of the nazi optimized,
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the news written by a single question where the painters improve. one has been searching for his brother and father, and us read the search for victim of the military dictatorship has led me to come see me after the 1st few minutes. d,
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