Applying stolen silver sleuth skills, German curator returns Nazi-looted heirlooms – Matthias Weniger has made it his mission to give back silver objects that ‘are often the only material things that remain from an existence wiped out in the Holocaust’ | Timesofisrael

MUNICH (AP) — Matthias Weniger put on a pair of white cloth gloves and carefully lifted a tarnished silver candleholder, looking for a yellowed sticker on the bottom of it.
The candlestick is one of 111 silver objects at the Bavarian National Museum that the Nazis stole from Jews during the Third Reich in 1939. That’s when they ordered all German Jews to bring their personal silver objects to pawnshops across the Reich — one of many laws created to humiliate, punish and exclude Jews.