After almost 80 years, a watch that was stolen by a Nazi soldier during World War II, got lost in a cornfield and was later hidden inside another farmhouse clock in Belgium, it has been returned to the grandchildren of its maker. Y still works. “I think it’s very beautiful and remarkable that all of this has come together,” said Richard van Ameijden, the watchmaker’s grandson. “It was totally unexpected.” The pocket watch was made in 1910 by Alfred Cross, a Jew from the Dutch city of Rotterdam who was at the time an apprentice watchmaker. He made it as...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
