A Holocaust survivor won a court case to get his mother’s concentration camp diaries from a scholar who was translating them. Michael Simon, who was born in Theresienstadt in 1943, asked last year for the return of the diaries, but the translator refused, saying she had a right to finish and publish her work.
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