Man who lost family members in Holocaust opposes Nazi artifact sales
HALIFAX — A Halifax man who lost family members in the Holocaust says he’s hoping a local antique shop will voluntarily stop selling Nazi artifacts — while a national Jewish group has called for regulation on trade in Third Reich memorabilia.
Shimon Walt said he learned of the sale of Nazi party badges and photos of Nazi-era war medals from his wife, Peggy Walt, who visited the shop after attending synagogue nearby on Saturday.
“I wish those memorabilia, all the swastikas and photographs … would stay locked up in museums around the world in places where we can educate our young ones and ourselves not to forget what has happened,” Walt, a cellist who plays in the local symphony orchestra, said in an interview on Monday.
Walt’s mother Bela survived the Holocaust in Lithuania after she and her mother were transferred to a Siberian work camp.