![]() ![]() The report lays out the creeping, and eventually overbearing, squeeze put on Jewish-owned businesses. He was commissioned by Heidi Horten to write an extensive study looking into her husband’s business empire. Helmut Horten’s story was complicated, said Peter Hoeres, a historian at the University of Würzburg, in Germany. ![]() And the auction house says the sale features more Bulgari jewels than ever assembled for a single auction. A dazzling diamond necklace could fetch $15 million or more. There’s a record-setting ruby ring that Heidi Horten bought for $30 million in 2015. The sale has already begun online, but also takes place in-person in two parts on Wednesday and Friday at a ritzy Geneva hotel. Christie’s - as criticism of the auction grew - said it planned to chip in some of its profits from the sale to Holocaust education. Proceeds are to benefit her Vienna art museum, welfare for children, and medical research. ![]() The auction house says the sale from “one of the greatest jewelry collections” is expected to reap some $150 million. GENEVA (AP) - Christie’s is auctioning a staggering 700 pieces of jewelry from the collection of the late Heidi Horten, an Austrian heiress whose German husband built a retail empire starting in the 1930s - in part from department stores and other assets sold by desperate Jews as they fled Nazi Germany. ![]()
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