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Jews Are Buying Nazi Memorabilia Sold By Families Of Deceased WWII Vets

JL;DR SUMMARY The article discusses the growing market for Nazi memorabilia, increasingly purchased by Jewish buyers. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Holocaust RemembranceNazi MemorabiliaJews Buying Nazi ArtifactsWwii RelicsMichael BulmashJewish CollectorsDocumentation Of HistoryPreservation Of ArtifactsControversial Collections

Places mentioned

Israel
"Haim Gertner, the archives director of Yad Vashem, the prominent Holocaust memorial in Israel, told The Post that the artifacts and documents should be saved if the owners see it as never forgetting the anti-Semitic history weaved within them."
Los Angeles, California, United States
"Rabbi Marvin Hier, the founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, has a similar mindset, arguing that certain objects, like Hitlers swastika ring made with 16 rubies (which sold for more than $65,000), only entice hatred and give rise to anti-Semitism."
Maryland, United States
"Basil Bill Panagopulos, founder of Alexander Historical Auctions in Maryland, a buyer and seller of Hitlers belongings and other Nazi paraphernalia, said the market has spiked with the help of World War II movies, documentaries and the History Channel."
Delaware, United States
"One buyer is Michael Bulmash, a retired Jewish clinical psychologist from Delaware."
Ohio, United States
"He has been buying memorabilia for the last two decades, donating everything to the Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection at Kenyon College in Ohio."
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
"Another, Howard Cohen, a retired Jewish optometrist in Pittsburgh, holds various Nazi Germany anti-Semitica at home."
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
"Its all about getting this stuff out in peoples faces, Bulmash told The Post, especially when you had neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville and the president of the United States creating a false equivalence between what neo-Nazis were doing and what the people who were trying to stop them were doing."

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