• 11/25/2024

Christie’s sale of Austrian heiress’ jewels stirs criticism

Washington Post

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

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