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| The Stolpersteine (Stumbling Block) outside Anna Donat's home shows when she was deported. |
A German court has ruled that an 85-year-old woman and her son who live in a property sold under duress by its Jewish owners in 1939 must give up their home.
The ruling earlier this month capped a decade of legal wrangling over the home, located in Wandlitz, outside Berlin. For many paying attention to the twists and turns, the fight over the lakeside property came to symbolize the pain and turmoil of nearly a century of history — as well as the ways in which German families tell themselves complicated stories about their role during the Holocaust. It has also surfaced lingering resentments, some of them clearly antisemitic, about Germany’s efforts to repay Jews for its crimes against them.
The Wandlitz estate is likely one of the last property restitution cases to be adjudicated in Germany, as virtually all looted or “aryanized” property has already gone through the restitution process or been lost to history, with no one left to claim it. The deadline to file property claims passed decades ago.
The case centers on an estate, located in a bucolic area about 20 miles from central Berlin, that functioned in the 1930s as a summer retreat for an orphanage operated by two Jewish women, Alice Donat and Helene Lindenbaum. To comply with Nazi laws meant to expropriate Jewish wealth, they sold the land, complete with a structure in poor condition, to Felix Moegelin in 1939 for 21,100 Reichsmarks, a relative pittance.
Moegelin had to sign the statement “I am Aryan,” while the two women had to sign that they were Jewish according to the Nuremberg Laws of 1935.
The original house was torn down and eventually replaced, and Moegelin and his family settled in on Wegener Street. Donat and Lindenbaum were deported from Berlin by the Nazis in 1943 and murdered.
Today, Moegelin’s granddaughter, Gabriele Lieske, 85, still lives in the house with her son, Thomas Lieske, 61. They dug in their heels after a lower court ruled last year that they must give up the property or pay for it. Located in the suburbs of Berlin, where real estate is hot, the property is worth about $1.6 million today.
Now, the property will be seized by the state and transferred to the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the legal successor to unclaimed Jewish property in the former East Germany. No living heirs to the murdered owners were ever identified.
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An elite Hamas commander who led one of the most horrific attacks on Israeli kibbutzim Oct. 7, 2023, was killed in a targeted strike in southern Gaza, the Israel Defense Force announced Tuesday.
Abd al-Hadi Sabah, the head of the terror group’s Nukhba platoon in Hamas’s West Khan Younis Battalion, was wiped out during an intelligence-based attack in a Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in Khan Younis, according to military officials.
Officials said measures were taken to minimize civilian harm during the operation, led by the IDF and the Israel Security Agency.
“The IDF and ISA will continue to operate against all of the terrorists who took part in the murderous October 7 massacre,” The IDF posted on X on Tuesday, along with a photo of Sabah in Israel during the terrorist attack.
Sabah was responsible for leading the invasion of Kibbutz Nir Oz, a community located fewer than 2 miles from the Gaza border fence and where dozens of civilians were murdered and scores more taken hostage, according to the IDF.
Hamas methodically burned all 250 cars at the kibbutz during the attack so that residents who weren’t immediately murdered or abducted couldn’t escape. Homes within the community, once considered a joyous paradise for nearly seven decades, were also destroyed.
Thirty-eight residents were killed and 75 kidnapped during the murderous rampage – leaving the kibbutz one of the communities most devastated by the terror attack.
Survivors were evacuated after the devastation and are now living in temporary housing about an hour away in Kiryat Gat.
The terrorist leader also led numerous attacks against Israeli troops in Gaza since the Jewish state was ambushed last year, the IDF stated.
Along with Sabah, the IDF also announced it killed Anas Muhammad Masri, commander of the northern sector of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s rocket unit, the Jerusalem Post reported.
Masri had been actively commanding rocket fire from northern Gaza into Israel, according to the IDF, which described him as a “significant figure responsible for executing numerous terrorist operations, managing and directing actions by the organization that targeted Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers.”
Hamas murdered more than 1,200 people – mostly civilians, including women and children – and kidnapped another 251 in the 2023 terrorist attack.
Ami staff took a ruler and measured the peyus of Turx and Zionce, and bingo, Zionce has 2 inches longer peyus, so he won the contest!
Am I the only crazy one here?
Why in Heaven's name do they keep their long peyis out in Golus mingling with Goyim and Shiksis? Then they will wail and yell when they are being mocked and ridiculed!
Put your peyis behind your ears like Rav Ahron Kotler, R" Moshe Feinstein and R Yaakov Kaminezky z"l, you have on who to rely on!
Yes, Chassidishe Rebbes and Chassidim have their peyos out, but then again they don't work in the White House!
Ami Magazine has named a new Senior White House Correspondent. In an X post, the popular magazine announced that the torch was being passed from Jake Turx to Shloime Zionce, the Chassidic Youtube world traveler and influencer who has focused on foreign affairs.
In the post, Ami wrote: “Passing of the torch. Everyone’s beloved Ami writer, popular YouTuber and social influencer Shloime Zionce is now our senior White House Correspondent.”
Zionce posted: “Humbled. Thank you @Ami_Magazine for giving me a shot in 2017, and for your continued belief in me up until this momentous day. Very grateful as always, and wishing much luck and success to @JakeTurx on the next step of his journey. I’m excited for what’s to come IYH.”
The announcement led to widespread speculation about the fate of the popular and beloved Jake Turx, who has held the position for years. Turx implied that he is getting promoted to Chief WH Correspondent.
Turx posted: “Thrilled to finally get upgraded to chief White House correspondent and I look forward to teaching Shloime everything I know.”
However Turx is known for his wit and sarcasm, and it is not clear if he was being serious.
