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Ok? This has been the most bizarre bout of defensiveness.
Łódź is not far from where my in-laws’ family lived. All but one died in the Warsaw ghetto or on the way to it. >

Lodz had it own camp. 220k slaughtered >

Yes, but they were from a town called Nasielsk. Same region I think. We have an account of those not immediately murdered being loaded onto trains and believed to have gone to Warsaw. >

Nasielsk is just north of Warsaw, and much closer to it than to Łódź. Almost everyone was either expelled from that town, or kept in a local labor camp, to make space for German colonization. >

I imagine there are collections like these hidden all over Eastern Europe. So very sad. The relics of a family’s life, intended to be ‘paused’ with the hope of one day returning to it, when almost none did. >

That was one of the hardest things to learn. At first your like, "whew. At least the ones they saved can go back to their lives and families" then years later you learn most had no family left, and the ones that made it back to their former places found them taken by locals. And they didn't give it back. Entire generations of wealth and history were wiped. 
Being freed from the holocaust wasn't the end of their suffering... it was the middle. There was a long road ahead. >

The village my grandfather was from was wiped from the map. He was the only one of his family sent to Canada, and the only one in his family to survive. The only thing I ever heard him say about it was when he was on his death bed and delirious. >

Happened many times. >

Thank you for this. I’m watching it on Hulu now >

My mother-in-law’s family, Polish Jews who ended up in Siberia during the war, managed to hold on to several silver pieces. They resemble what’s shown in this photo and will be passed down through the generations. >

The part about 30 percent of the city being Jewish and almost all of them being killed during the Nazi occupation is gut wrenching. Can you imagine killing 3 out of 10 people in your city? >

For countries like Belarus they lost 30% of their entire population. Over 1/4 dead. Probably even more injured and left crippled >

The Nazi priority was the Jews, but their long term plan included wiping out the Slavic population (only keeping some as slaves). >

Indiana Jones 6 just found its script... >

Still sounds a lot more promising than that bastard 4th one... >

The Dial of Destiny, 5th in the franchise, gonna be the shit! .....at least, that's what I assume will happen after he dials and says "I've fallen and I can't get up."
Next in the lineup:
Indiana Jones and the Haulo Cost
Indiana Jones and the Village of Retirement
Indiana Jones and the Diapers Of Dread
Indiana Jones and the Lost Bingo Marker
Indiana Jones and the Hospice of Hope >

I'm looking forward to "Indiana Jones and the Magic Conch" >

I really wish they spelled it “pre-war”. I was so confused >

What is it specifically about the metals used that causes some of them to turn green and decay while others seem to be in perfect condition? >

Copper alloys, including brass and bronze, form a "patina" layer due to chemical reactions with air and water over time. Some other metals like gold don't. >

There are very likely descendents who are still living, though maybe at the 5-6 cousin level twice removed. Extensive DNA matching and tracing needs to be done to return the artifacts. >

Maybe. Often times the people who survived returned home to find their homes occupied by locals, who would frequently murder the returning Jewish population. Can you imagine surviving the horror of the holocaust only to be murdered by the people who took your home for themselves? Fucking human horrors. >

I wonder of stuff from my grandparents' relatives is in there.... >

That’s so interesting! I’m fascinated by historic Judaical >

I hope they will be displayed in a museum asap. Would like to see them >

Or returned to the rightful owners/decendents. >

Out of 230,000 only 10k survived. The chances that there are rightful owners left are slim. These items will better serve as a reminder in a museum. >

This is 3-4 generations ago. We aren't talking about thousands of years before good written records. These people have living children and grandchildren today, and many of them have clear written records tying them to that place. 
You don't get to just steal things to put in a museum because you think they're interesting like England did. >

A lot of those families were completely wiped though. If a descendent can’t be found, a museum is the next best place. Are potentially unclaimed Jewish artifacts resting in a Jewish museum documenting a Jewish horror considered stealing? This is presuming they can’t find the rightful owners of these heirlooms. >

You presume that. I presume that. But the comment I replied to explicitly said chances are "slim" and therefore they'd "better" go in a museum. Clearly implying that it isn't worth the resources to try to return them to original congregants or congregations in the area. Let's not pretend like that isn't a SUPER common attitude for western cultures to take towards any sort of artifact of non-dominant cultures (see: first nations people in north america, Greek and African culture by England, etc.) It is absolutely worth reminding people that these aren't relics of a long-lost civilization, that these are the precious family heirlooms of living people. >

Oh I was just saying that the second best place for them to go would be to a Jewish museum, not that they shouldn’t bother trying to find the rightful heirs to these pieces. I thought you were saying that they shouldn’t even consider a museum at all because of a historical trend of western museums simply taking things for their museums. I don’t consider Israel to be part of the historic “West” in this case, and indeed I have no idea if Jewish museums are similar in the process of their acquisitions. Certainly an organization like Yad Vashem would be interested in preserving these as part of Jewish ancestry and Holocaust history in particular. In reminding us not to presume, you seem to have made a few presumptions of your own. >

...I specifically mentioned that you were presuming that in literally the second sentence of my comment, so I don't know why you're butthurt. >

Man, fine, way to kill a discussion. Nothing makes me want to talk with someone less than when they accuse someone who disagrees or argues a point “butthurt.” Go enjoy your day.