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This handout photograph taken in an undisclosed area and released by Arthur Brand on May 11, 2026, shows the painting 'Portrait of a Young Girl' by Dutch artist Toon Kelder, an art piece stolen from the world-famous Goudstikker collection by the Nazis, discovered in the house of the descendants of a notorious Dutch SS collaborator (Handout and Arthur BRAND / AFP)
May 11, 2026, 11:19 am
Art looted from Jewish collector hanging in home of Dutch SS leader’s family, sleuth says
Discovery made when descendant of Nazi collaborator revealed ‘Portrait of a Young Girl’ by Toon Kelder was displayed in relative’s hallway; theft has passed statute of limitations
By Richard Carter
Tensions occur between those gathering under the banners of the Jewish Brigade and other demonstrators during the parade for the anniversary of Liberation Day of Italy as part of the April 25 celebrations in Milan, Italy, on April 25, 2026. (Alessandro Bremec/NurPhoto)
April 26, 2026, 11:35 pm
‘You’re lucky you’re not soap bars’: Jews forced to leave rally marking WWII end in Italy
Members joining march under banners of British Army’s Nazi-fighting Jewish Brigade and other Jewish organizations are insulted and prevented from continuing
By Rossella Tercatin
French artist Henri Matisse works on his 'Grand Intérieur Rouge' canvas in his Villa le Rêve studio in Vence, circa April 1948. (Louis FOUCHERAND / AFP)
April 18, 2026, 7:52 am
Was Henri Matisse’s sojourn in Vichy France de facto collaboration or quiet resistance?
In his new book ‘Matisse at War,’ Christopher C. Gorham explores the renowned artist’s troubled but prolific life under the Nazis during WWII, and his family’s role in the French underground
By Rich Tenorio
A container installed near the site of the Jedwabne pogrom proclaims in Polish, "The earth doesn't lie." The container, installed in April 2026, promotes the narrative that Nazis, not Poles, killed the Jews of Jedwabne in 1941. (Screenshot via JTA)
April 18, 2026, 4:58 am
Polish town’s new ‘information center’ denies murders of Jews by local Poles in 1941
Family of Jewish man who survived the Jedwabne massacre is trying to get the new installation removed: ‘We call it a denial museum, because that’s what it is’
By Shira Li Bartov
Historian Johannes Spohr's grandfather, Rudolf Spohr, as an ordnance officer of the German Army High Command shortly before his trip to Crimea, August 1942. (Courtesy/ family collection)
April 15, 2026, 3:44 am
My grandfather, the Nazi: A German historian helps families unravel forebears’ crimes
After discovering his own patriarch’s role in the Holocaust, scholar Johannes Spohr offers workshops that confront uncomfortably specific truths amid a wider culture of remembrance
By Robert Philpot
Vladka Meed’s false identification card, issued in the name of Stanisława Wąchalska, 1943. (Courtesy, Benjamin Meed/ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
April 14, 2026, 8:48 am
Avenging angel risked her life to try to save Warsaw’s Jews — and lived to write about it
Updated English translation of Vladka Meed’s 1948 Yiddish memoir, ‘On Both Sides of the Wall,’ breathes new life into her experiences with the Jewish resistance against the Nazis
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Amedeo Modigliani's 'Seated Man with a Cane,' 1918
April 5, 2026, 3:50 pm
Court orders Nazi-looted Modigliani painting be returned to Jewish art dealer’s estate
After 11-year case, NY judge rules $25 million painting kept in storage in Switzerland is same one Germans seized from Oscar Stettiner’s Paris shop in WWII
By ToI Staff
This photograph shows a sign of Swiss giant banking UBS at a branch in Zurich on March 4, 2026. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
March 11, 2026, 8:34 am
UBS asks US judge to shield it from further investigation into Nazi bank accounts
Former Credit Suisse reached $1.25b settlement in 1999 over WWII-era crimes, is now resistant to handing over 150 documents it says are protected by attorney-client privilege
By Jonathan Stempel
Chris Edmonds (left) son of US Master Sergeant Roderick Edmonds, with US President Donald Trump, is presented the Medal of Honor on behalf of his father, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, March 2, 2026, in Washington, DC. (AP/Alex Brandon)
March 3, 2026, 6:26 am
WWII vet who shielded Jews at Nazi POW camp at gunpoint gets medal of honor
Highest US military distinction awarded posthumously to Roderick W. Edmonds, who refused to let Nazis separate Jewish prisoners of war in 1945
By AP and ToI Staff
Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds is being awarded a Medal of Honor in 2026 for his bravery in protecting Jewish troops in World War II. (Courtesy Yad Vashem via JTA)
February 23, 2026, 4:59 am
US soldier who saved Jews in POW camp during WWII to be awarded Medal of Honor
Roddie Edmonds is one of only five Americans to be credited as Righteous Among the Nations, having been bestowed the honor for his actions during the Battle of the Bulge in 1945
By PHILISSA CRAMER
A gardener tends to the lawn between the tombstones at the Commonwealth Gaza War Cemetery -- commonly known as the British War Cemetery and in which are interred the remains of 3,217 Allied soldiers who died during World War I -- in Gaza City on September 28, 2022. (Mahmud HAMS / AFP)
February 5, 2026, 11:59 am
IDF said to have damaged Gaza cemetery containing graves of Allied troops from world wars
Guardian report shows destruction, earthworks at graveyard east of Gaza City; IDF says area was ‘an active combat zone,’ contained tunnels used by Hamas terrorists
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A group of Soviet partisans singing during a lull in the fighting. (Photographed by Yakov Davidson. Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum, Israel/Photo Archive)
January 28, 2026, 8:03 am
In WWII, legendary Jewish partisan ‘Uncle Misha’ took out Nazis while carrying a tune
New book ‘Partisan Song’ packs an action-filled punch as it tells the story of Moshe Gildenman, a nearly-forgotten Jewish guerrilla warfare leader against the Nazis in Ukraine
By Renee Ghert-Zand
US Army honor guard members begin to settle the casket of Morton Sher into a grave at a cemetery in Greenville, South Carolina, Dec. 14, 2025. (Air Force Senior Airman Savannah Carpenter/US Department of War)
December 25, 2025, 9:34 pm
82 years after his death in China, Jewish WWII pilot returned to US for burial
DNA testing helped identify the body of Lt. Morton Sher, a member of the Flying Tigers, killed in action in 1943 during a combat mission over China
By Zev Stub
A soldier makes final preparations before the annual Memorial Day commemoration at the American cemetery in Margraten, on May 29, 2022. (Robin van Lonkhuijsen/ANP/AFP)
December 13, 2025, 3:58 pm
Officials removed exhibit on Black soldiers in WWII over fear of Trump’s ‘ire,’ emails show
Holocaust museums and Jewish veterans’ groups object to the move, which had not previously been explained, as distorting memory
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz addresses guests during a Central Council of Jews in Germany (Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland) Rosh Hashana reception, on the occasion of its 75th anniversary, on September 17, 2025, at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)
November 30, 2025, 10:10 pm
Germany to return Nazi-looted artifacts to Poland at diplomatic confab
Delegation led by Merz set to hand back saintly bust and crusader manuscripts, in move expected to smooth over long-held tensions with Poland over valuables looted during WWII
By AFP and ToI Staff
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