I read a story on YNet news and Times Online about a French man, Michael Leleu Levi, who claims that the Auschwitz Holocaust Museum have his fathers' suitcase, he is seeking legal action to get it back.
How can they NOT return the suitcase to him? It is unacceptable when Nazi looted art and other items turn up in museums around the world and the museums do not return them to the claimants. Just because they are a holocaust museum does not mean that their cause is any more important than the standards we expect of other museums holding looted artifacts, nor does it make the claim of Mr Levi any less important. This is the only remnant of this man's father and if he wishes to have it returned then they need to do that.
So... they will have one less suitcase in their exhibition, surely that is less important than the connection that Mr Levi feels (whether logical or not) to his father's suitcase.
Please return the suitcase to Mr Levi, why should he have to go to court to get back what is rightfully his. It is bad enough that Jews all over the world have to fight museums and private collectors in legal battles to claim back the things that were stolen from their relatives.
Send the museum an email
