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a whole lot of crime. it's probably up to speed if the carriers subscribe to the subscribe to plan, it's a the, [000:00:00;00] the kingdom of children's bedding, a small ink. well, i'm an oil painting with a gold train. i'm going to be going once going twice, going 3 times from underwear to valuable. everything was sort of nazis used options to generate millions replenished a war chest hunt for bonbons, which let know stuff on to global showed us as an openness go home as well. i think
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it was an open secret issue that everything here which was the jewish property, was sold with a club like auction and defend people could figure out that's a 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 quoted lift fence, they hope to build a new loss in exile. but off to the world again. very few of these crates went to their own is 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 codes that were meant for shipment. when tons of the honda in raymond to most of the stolen objects, a still missing
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the cultural title is one of a few 100 provenance researches in germany. she's determined to result the case of nazi losing once referral and true gym and fashion. the ritual expect event meticulous. been an option that's a step down to $3000.00 households were auctioned off and hungry. 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 tribal searches for clues. she's on a mission for justice. and the families already had
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a hard time leaving their homeland. and once they are, i have to go overseas. for instance, in america, they waited for their belongings to arrive and nothing time. the major goal is to eventually return these objects to their family has informed me and thoughtful can a difficult task. and one that the defendants of the families of loan being 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 these objects would. where did my grandparents belongs end up in on that process. these questions don't get a moment kind of willis. he hopes clinicals research provides answers. hello, hello. good morning. it's nice to see, you know, so it's, it's nice to meet with such a symphonic place. oh yeah. they could use grandparents belongings,
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which included the valuable collection, were also sold in a so called lift fans the dishes, 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 lesson on i'm cuz that's what i should have been too cheap. so i the nazis rose to power in 1933. although hitting his plans for extermination would 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 belief they would be re united with their belongings,
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provided they had paid the transport in advance. the costs were meant the many of the crates never reach their own is the so i'm not ready to see you. then it was of course, the goal of the national socialists not only to 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 to know the head. so she because family came from the spot and the old conductor took an early interest in not which he bought together with his wife. he died 1933 east children, fly to london, soon to be joined by their mother in law positions which included the family's odd collection which followed by way of handbook southwest hall, the that was the promise, but they never made it to london and 1941 had books as were confiscations, photos of memories,
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documents of lights worth of objects disappeared. so full of money in the end, everything was taken from the doctor's showing that his criminal, terrible foolish are really no words. but enough to describe us in the hub is that the stuff, the confiscation goods that women to shipping an option to move even use papers, advertised opportunities to purchase cheap goods. i'm call for the affordable gramaphone. and oil painting circuit. 175056 books. here in the handbook state archives kitchen. clive of meticulously searches through option rig quotes. the nonsense for good bookkeeping
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gets done. here we go on to and ok, the individual contents of a lift van or neatly listed here. this is and, and you always had the name of the object, understand this, the name and the name of the person who bought it from us here. for example, it's the museum if that's knology and what was offered for the object or group of items in question. and it goes on here page by page. this done, he is from say, art object needs to books. everything was more or less sort insurance like the bed linen and the bed frame, the special on cookware, and so on costco. sure, it's a viable research is funded by the gym and most of the foundation which he seeks to establishes who was abrupt, who was the behind. and where are the items now from beginning from for less than from the beginning of an object journey. the test when it left its owners house with the moving company to the moment it was stored with the bailiff. tact was a job of auctioning it off. what angry? so it's you and it basically listens who bought what, okay,
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and for how much gum so that we get an overview of can just to verify sca cove talk to the fuse where they private persons were they the dealers feedback as well and, and what happened to the objects and after that was checked and then vide helps us yet. much like a detective. caution client will get this all the clues in adult to base. i'm just using guns and flew 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 some point of sales and in homburg. now 14 tribal works is a provenance research here with the gym and maritime museum in 3 and a half. and the job is to find out was that the items in the museums collection were quad,
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legally the nazis also auctioned off personal effects from jewish household. see, improvement, that's how club and 1st became aware of this injustice to stop by as me off the phone. that's it struck me that this whole topic of jewish microns property being auctioned off in freeman and homework number, where we've been dealt with. i just confess there's miss bava who bought which items that these auction know a forced foundation gate. and this has never been researched because even though it were all in the document and not from d, as in papa. many people attended the options, not just dealers in private individuals, but also numerous handbook museums. today, they a cooperation with caption climbs research. for example, installer museums for
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a paintings that option and is now looking for the rightful owners. and as the calm vanity, just as 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, gilligan 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 incineration 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 a definitely dauntless individual group. just set everything in motion again and
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raised notes 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. just don't have enough room for exist. you 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 6 months lieberman brock and schmidt, brooklyn's artists who were doing museums today. the villa in darling was taken over by the national socialist with a frank 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. she hope the contents of the household would fine,
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except they never arrived. her property was sold off in handbook and an option that lasted 3 days. bahama fail, 1500 times. the actual tribal is still amazed by this case today. the 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 hand associated ski. wanted to print the back . she had photos to prove what belong to her. and what would be looted by the nazis, but only a few items were ever returned. libel is researching the case. she's painstakingly
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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 as a furniture from your honda pal should skis. how was the corresponding item number in the auction record and for the to huntsville, often flushed idols portable coin, much my bill is i'm of now. they're even complete shots of the living rooms off object is we also fund objects that worse bond with the auction record. i was portable quite a bit of it a few and clicking on that annoying. let's take a look at this 11. 09 sign. what would it be an, an impact on layout? cool, not a bit of my a crown was bought by maya for $760.00 like small distances, price lock set for the depth of the price was estimated at $200.00. this is done
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with, with to so that what has been this land here? with the help of the lawyer, you'll have to push it ski managed to identify pushy 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 in the autumn, at an auction held by the onboard bailiffs office without having the slightest idea they might be too. is your property interest in 200 and credit sheet? basically every file size, same thing you haven't, i have no more records on special. you're not aware of that. you have, we have nothing at all to do with this summit and something along those lines on the feel. the files of the risk attrition proceedings stored here in the attic of
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what is now the handbook district court. you have a 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 in the file with a big strep around it, it must, i might 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 comments to it was an astonishing find. patients who passed because it's very, very rare and restitution files that people still have photos of the properties and fun images. it took a few photographs, their furniture moved, but it was just so exceptional, but i have to look into it to find them. so victims including your honda. so should ski there's more stakes and just the 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. so sums of money into like a government issued for tag. oh my god gave it away to close scrutiny and
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regulation. quote, i think with us in 1965 up to 17 years you'll have to push should ski was compensated by the federal republic of germany with 960000 torch marks on condition that she truck also declined a laughable sum compared to the original value of her estate, flemish, appealing file it was a solution to me, was that the states then actually stepped into the show at the depth of private individuals was repaired. but the states on this, 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 listen to this day. many paintings from your hand. a precious gets processed on collection
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a classified as lost and continues to search for them with the help of a little sum in munich. he's concerned with more than the value out on 1st interest and so on. if he's interested in his family history, was that what happened to his grandparents um, especially to his grandmother who was more to one of hearts there's no 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 started. and where has all of his family history gone? does it come from you didn't receive to complete a lifetime of pain and loss. this chinese put ahead was a quad in paris,
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an auctioned off by the national socialists and the images of and here we have that . i talk one old head items 166265 acquired by the museum of acknowledging or quin the school board file from from the bid was 500 hikes small. got them. i'm 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. these and cops with his head was apparently lost on and thus lockwood on them. that was probably due to a clerical error in the restitution records of 2012 where it was listed as an old hodge of london. so when they looked through the record, they couldn't find the head and didn't conference 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 acknowledging in handbook now named monk,
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it should been on loosely stored in addition to the 80 years until it was broken out for an arctic suspicion. tribal seeing it 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 a sheet skis is the, the museum was pretty familiar with the name. so should ski, because it is already returned 6 objects to its own off to the war, but not the boat to hit the
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tip 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 tennessee itself. go. it'll fish kit this way. you see, i don't buy that. no, 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 there are adequate resources for provenance research option. first of all, they committed to this and must honor this commitment to the stone. you should put face to move. i'm just the boat ahead was tracked down thanks to the joint efforts
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of caution chronicle and mock it's the 1st piece in campbell's research projects to be returned the tech job, that's a specialist at 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 on support you on this and we're lucky here that mark is a public institution slip to. so it is possible to find these items on us and sources and 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 searches for more clues to pass through many hands off to being bored by casualties
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as auction. christie's the auction house also tried to sell it in vain. it was delivered to it by a gallery in keel. eventually it was sold by austria to france. but nobody will say who has it now. 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 that right away, like the know the wasn't the only work in the club family's collection. it also includes the author of valuable paintings such as a yap lensky, a clay, a role. today, they a certain that all of these artworks will do to be honest restaurant, but from the historical research institute. fax and file is trying to reconstruct
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the cruise from umus paintings from the company to state that 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 things or why aren't they telling the truth and you're going to forget to the and then dustless talked interesting, why are they trying to mislead us and to the time they shouldn't boost the suggest that the people involved knew that there was something wrong with how the painting had to be in acquire touching, don't touch actually show us what the piece had been stolen. that's are interesting to this day, most of the positions belong to the expelled jewish community,
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a missing minions of all, checks, everything that was due to them that they had hoped to take wisdom to begin, the new lines 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, i was looking on this list all but i've regions the letter and let me just a boost of it in and they'll come, doesn't own goofy so far. this is that's approximately total. 1700 names of victims from hom, board from the swedish. now some walk my candy unless i get a hold of them together like this. now you can see i have completed just over half of the list and come on just as an investment the so my guess would be there's about $2700.00 names in total. and then the lucid prophecy and the names of the
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victims will be published in a dasa base need then can the owners, and there is a search declines where has the cox out collection gone? the grand son will keep searching as long as he can is up here and is often really doing a 21 test. initially i'm 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. for this chapter, if history will be buried forever to vanish into oblivion, which is on fire, is doing getting 5 fluid up a light should search for justice casual club will work, give up, trying to write the roles of the nazi optimized,
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