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GENEVA (AP) — Christie’s is auctioning a staggering 700 pieces of jewelry from the collection of the late Heidi Horten, an Austrian heiress whose German husband built a retail empire starting in the 1930s — in part from department stores and other assets sold by desperate Jews as they fled Nazi Germany. The auction house […]
Christie's is planning to sell off 700 jewels worth an estimated $150million that once belonged to the widow of a Nazi Party member. The auction has drawn criticism given its history.
Research finds that under threat of being sent to concentration camps, Jewish businesspeople sold companies to Heidi Horten's husband in 1930s below market value
The gems in Christie’s huge sale next week come from the estate of a woman whose husband bought businesses from Jews pressured to sell because of Nazi persecution.
Billionaire art collector Heidi Goëss-Horten has died just days after opening her private museum, the Heidi Horton Collection, in Vienna.