Jewish Geography
Notorious officials mentioned in Argentina’s extensive documentation include Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Holocaust who was captured by the Mossad in 1960.
the surrounding Islamic world,” said Sharon Liberman Mintz, So- theby’s international senior Juda- ica specialist, in a press release. The Arabic inscriptions on the Kiddush cup, which would have been used for the bless- ing over wine at Shabbat meals, include a series of blessings for its owner. “Bearing inscrip- tions in both Hebrew and Ara- bic, the cup was not only used to sanctify Jewish ritual, but also embodied a shared artis- tic language across faiths, and its survival for nearly a millen- nium is truly remarkable,” said
Liberman Mintz. “No other me- dieval Judaica artefact of this early date is known to exist.” The Kiddush cup, which has been dubbed the “Cup of Joy,” has an estimated value of $3 million to $5 million (US) and will be auctioned in New York on October 29. Last fall, Sothe- by’s also auctioned off a 1,500- year-old stone inscription of the Ten Commandments. It sold for more than $5 million to an anonymous buyer who said they intended to donate it to an Israeli institution, according to The New York Times. JTA
“rat lines” after the war. The documents are now publicly available through Argentina’s National Archive, the Argentini- an government announced. The released documents include banking and financial transac- tions that show how Nazis were able to resettle in Argentina as well as records held by Argenti- na’s defence ministry, according to The Times of Israel . Notorious officials men- tioned in Argentina’s extensive documentation include Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Holocaust who was captured by the Mossad in 1960 and later tried and executed in Israel, and Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor dubbed the “angel of death.” The public received a glimpse of Argentina’s collec- tion of tens of thousands of doc- uments relating to its support for Nazis fleeing prosecution in a documentary in 2018. The government’s collection had been fully concealed until 1992, when Argentina’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs declassified 139,544 documents. JTA
GLOBAL ARGENTINA DECLASSIFIES MORE THAN 1,800 FILES ON NAZI ESCAPE TO SOUTH AMERICA by GRACE GILSON
THE ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT has announced the release of nearly 1,850 classified documents that show how Nazi fugitives escaped to the country after World War II. The trove of documents was made available to the public in late April at the urging of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish advocacy group named for the famed late Nazi hunter. Argentina’s Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers Guillermo Francos said President Javier Milei gave the or- der to release them “because there is no reason to continue withhold- ing that information,” according to Argentinian outlet Perfil . The collection will shed light on the financing of escape routes for Nazis, thousands of whom fled to South America via so-called
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