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BÄCK (BAECK), LEO

(1873-1956) The central personality of German Jewry during the Nazi period, a great rabbinical scholar, teacher, and community leader. Born in Prussia, Baeck was called in 1912 to serve the most prominent Jewish congregation in Berlin, and except for several years spent as a chaplain during WWI, would hold that position for the next thirty [...]

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Protests force end to Nazi surgical tools sale

Ghoulish” surgical tools belonging to a Nazi war criminal have been withdrawn from auction in Cornwall this weekend, after a furious series of protests to the auctioneers. The hacksaw and scalpels, engraved with the name Anton Burger – SS commandant of the Theresienstadt ghetto – are set in a velvet-lined wooden box. Valued at around [...]

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