The items that were stolen were worth up to £50,000. Moreover, the museum was told years in advance that a staff member was stealing artifacts.
They will go on public display for the first time in the month-long exhibition at Sotheby's, which will then auction many of the items in September.
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art has cancelled its conference with Christie's amid controversies over a Nazi-linked jewelry sale. The fallout is growing as concerns mount and institutions reject profits.
The fall of the hammer at 74 million pounds broke the tension, triggering a collective exhalation in the room and a round of applause.
Rabbi Menachem Margolin made a moral appeal to the auction house, stating that the items do not have inherent historical value and their sale could be dangerous.
The majority of Hitler's silver items have a current bidding price of £1, despite many of the estimations being in the tens-of-thousands.
The manuscript is the world’s oldest nearly complete copy of the Hebrew Bible. It was handwritten roughly 1,100 years ago on 792 pages of sheepskin.
The items fetched a total of $202 million, making the auction the largest jewelry sale in history.
Multiple auction houses have held sales of Nazi memorabilia in Australia and around the world in recent years.
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