Buried treasure find in Hungary
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/buried-treasure-poses-holocaust-puzzle-hungary-museum-035212678.html
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
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Thanks for sharing - interesting and sad story
There is a good chance that the real story behind that collection will never be known. As long as Admiral Horthy was the leader of Hungary the Jewish population was more or less protected even though Hungary was an ally of Germany. When he was overthrown in early 1944 things changed for the worse very quickly. The fact that no one ever tried to recover that collection after the war would indicate that the owner and anyone else who knew about it didn't survive. Proving ownership may prove difficult. I wonder what laws will apply in Hungary?
Article summary:
It is unusual that this coin collection was not found by the Germans or Russians.
One of my neighbors was born in Hungary around 1939; she is Jewish and lived through that period.
I mentioned this news story to her this morning and she told me that when the Germans arrived in 1944 her neighbors were drilling holes in the building wood and stone to hide gold coins and jewelry.
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I wish the original owners had survived and retrieved the coins, but barring that I'm glad the fascist and socialist vermin didn't.
Now that is totally cool.