![]() ![]() In recent days, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which specializes in tracking former Nazis, and the American Jewish Committee have called on Christie's to suspend the sale. ![]() According to the Forbes ranking, the fortune of his wife, Heidi Horten, who died in June 2022, amounted to $ 2.9 billion. He was later accused of profiting from the "Aryanization" of Jewish property (spoliation measures aimed at transferring ownership of businesses owned by people of Jewish origin). ![]() In 1936, three years after Adolf Hitler became German Chancellery, he took over the Alsberg textile company after its Jewish owners fled, before taking over several other Jewish-owned stores before the war. It was the origin of the fortune of Helmut Horten, who owned one of the largest department store chains in Germany, that drew criticism. Except that organizations are calling for her suspension because of her husband's ties to the Nazis during the war. The auction of the jewels of Austrian billionaire Heidi Horten (1941-2022) held in May was supposed to be the event of the year for Christie's. ![]() 700 jewels, a Cartier ring set with a ruby, a diamond of 90.36 carats. ![]()
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