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A fight to save Jewish history
Mattan Segev-Frank, a genealogist and historian, is a man with a mission. Mattan Segev-Frank is a man with a mission. And while he has singlehandedly already begun making an impact, he knows that the issues he is concerned about are much larger than any single person. They require governments and international authorities to take decisive steps.
My first encounter with Mattan, a genealogy researcher and an MA student of the History of the Jewish People at the Tel Aviv University, was in a Jewish genealogy Facebook group when he shared his dismay at stolen historic and vital records from Hungary s Jewish community being auctioned off online to the highest bidder..
Ion Antonescu, the prime minister of Romania and a Nazi ally, began transporting Jews there from several districts under Romanian sovereignty. Around 90,000 of some 185,000 Jews deported to Transnistria were murdered, according to Yad Vashem.
During Artzi’s missions in Transnistria, he persuaded parents to hand over their children, whom he then smuggled to Bucharest.
Artzi led several daring rescue missions as a leader of the Jewish resistance. He rescued Jewish orphans from ghettos in Transnistria, helped illegally transport Jews to Palestine in immigration ships, and served as a leader for Jewish communities detained by the British Mandate in Cypriot internment camps.
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Agreement was signed with the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO), the Jewish community of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah.