Swastika pins hidden in radio
A chilling experience for the son of Holocaust survivors: Amit Ben-Zvi, 37, discovered three Nazi officer swastika pins hidden inside a 70-year-old antique radio he purchased in Austria.
When he arrived back home in Israel,
he took the radio apart and was pretty amazed with what he found.
A former head of the Menahemiya town council and a counselor for high school trips to Poland, Ben-Zvi recently set off on a private trip to Vienna. As he's in the habit of doing, he searched for antiques at the local flea market during his stay there. He noticed an old radio in one the booths he visited and decided to buy it.
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From inside the radio, three Nazi pins – one of them silver and the other two gold – fell out from the device.
"I picked the pins up with a trembling hand and took them to show my mother, a Holocaust survivor," he recounted.
It is unclear exactly how the pins got there. One idea is that the radio belonged to a Nazi officer and once Germany surrendered, he hid his pins in the device because possession of Nazi items was forbidden by law.