Historic artifacts from Eastern European Jewish communities seized in US Fri 23rd July 2021 | 08:30 AM
New York, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Jul, 2021 ) :Investigators have seized historic artifacts stolen from Eastern European Jewish communities during World War II that were set to be auctioned in the United States, Federal officials said Thursday.
New York-based auction house Kestenbaum & Company was due to sell 17 19th-century funeral scrolls, manuscripts and community records before they were seized off the back of an extensive investigation, a Justice Department statement said.
The artifacts were looted in the midst of our world s darkest of times during the Holocaust fromRomania, Hungary, Slovakia and Ukraine, Peter Fitzhugh, special-agent-in-charge at the Department of Homeland Security s investigative arm, said in the statement.
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