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Born in 1942 in Antwerp, Arthur Langerman miraculously escaped the Shoah which decimated all his family except for his mother. He is very poor and shas to leave school to work for a diamond merchant. The latter exploits him until the day Arthur understands that colored diamonds, then despised, will increase in value. Nicknamed "the king of colored diamonds", he will sell his precious stones all over the world, not without incredible adventures. But he will never forget the murder of his family by the Nazis. Why this deep hatred of the Jews which led to the Shoah? He discovers a horrible postcard on the Old Market in Brussels showing a caricatured ?disgusting old ?Jew?? sodomizing a little girl. In a flash, he understands that the trivialization of contempt and hatred of the Jews under the cover of so-called humor conditioned minds and opened the way to Hitler. From then on, he begins to collect anti-Semitic posters, drawings, and paintings. Caricatures? No, the degradation of millions of human beings into vermin! His collection has been exhibited in numerous museums, notably at the Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen and at the Caen Memorial. Its ten thousand pieces are today brought together in a foundation in Berlin, under the aegis of the university and the city, ensuring worldwide visibility. Several publications, as well as television reports and numerous press articles, have been devoted to the collection and to Arthur Langerman himself. Diane von Fu?rstenberg, whose mother and that of Arthur Langerman knew each other in the death camps, wrote a foreword.