10-11-2021 23:51 via artnews.com

German Historical Museum Acquires 15,000 Holocaust-Era Artifacts

The German Historical Museum in Berlin has received a 15,000-piece collection of Holocaust-era ephemera and artifacts from Wolfgang Haney, who passed in 2017 at the age of 93.
Haney was born to a Catholic father and a Jewish mother in 1924 in Berlin. Following the Nuremberg laws of 1935, Haney was considered a “first-degree Jewish half-breed” until the overturning of these laws at the end of World War II. He lost many family members to the Holocaust, and following his retirement from
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