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Nazi-Looted Kandinsky Painting Sells for $42 Million at Auction

“The Colorful Life,” a 1907 work by the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, had been returned to the original owners’ heirs in 2023.

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“The Colorful Life,” by Wassily Kandinsky, at Christie’s auction rooms last week.
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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101

He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
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German Town Votes to Stop Adding Memorials Outside Homes of Slain Jews

Councilors in an eastern German town voted to stop installing memorial plaques outside homes of Holocaust victims, saying they would instead build a memorial at a cemetery.

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The artist Gunter Demnig placing plaques called “Stolpersteine,” or “stumbling stones,” on a street in Berlin in May.
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