Esther Bejarano, one of the last survivors of the women’s orchestra at Auschwitz, has died at the age of 96, the head of the Anne Frank Education Centre said on Twitter on Saturday. Bejarano, who played the accordion in the Auschwitz orchestra, died in the night from Friday to Saturday, Meron Mendel, head of the […]
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FBI to return Nazi-stolen art to Jewish collector’s heirs
A painting stolen from the family of art collector Adolphe Schloss by Germans during the World War II occupation of France will be returned to his descendants in New York, the French consulate said in a statement Tuesday. The painting, Dutch artist Salomon Koninck’s 1639 “A Scholar Sharpening His Quill,” was part of an important […]
Martin Heidegger’s paradox under Nazis
When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, a large number of German philosophers and academicians had initially tried to distance themselves from the Nazis political trap. At the time, there were 180 philosophers, who were appointed at the German universities and roughly dozens of them joined the Nazi party in the beginning. […]