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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 342

Holocaust restitution

Amber crucifixes and golden jewelry that were confiscated by Nazi Germans from Stanislawa Wasilewska and returned to relatives in a ceremony in Warsaw, Poland, on September 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
September 12, 2024, 8:27 am
Jewelry seized from Poles in Nazi concentration camps returned to families
Germany’s Arolsen Archives hands over Stanislawa Wasilewska’s bracelet, watch and crucifixes to her grandson and great-granddaughter at an emotional ceremony in Warsaw
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
Illustrative: A picture taken on March 14, 2023 shows "The Boy in the Red Waistcoat" 1888 a masterpiece by Paul Cezanne, part of the Emil Buhrle Collection exhibited at the Kunsthaus Zurich. Kunsthaus Zurich, one of Switzerland's top art museums, launched a new review aimed at clarifying whether any of its artworks might be cultural property looted by the Nazis. (Arnd Wiegmann/AFP)
June 15, 2024, 7:53 am
Swiss museum to remove five paintings linked to Nazi looting
Paintings come from collection of Emil Buhrle, a German-born arms dealer who made his fortune during World War II; museum working to to trace descendants of rightful owners
By AFP
Illustrative: The flags, from left to right, of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania at a ceremony in Riga, Latvia, in 2012. (Pablo Andrés Rivero via JTA)
December 20, 2023, 10:10 am
In shift, Latvia and Lithuania to pay Holocaust survivors, heirs for stolen property
Countries open up limited time slots to apply for restitution, after decades of Soviet rule prevented compensation for Nazi massacres
By Shira Li Bartov
Maurice de Vlaminck's 'Landscape by the Water,' an art piece looted by the Nazi-allied regime in Croatia during the Holocaust and restored in September 2023 to its rightful owner, undated. (Archives of the Zagreb National Museum of Modern Art)
September 23, 2023, 7:56 pm
In apparent first, Croatia restores looted art to grandson of Holocaust victim
Three museums return pieces to Andy Reichsman, who continued decades-long struggle by late aunt to reclaim works stolen by Nazi-allied regime
By ToI Staff and Agencies
France's Culture Minister Rima Abdul-Malak (C), flanked by France's Minister for Solidarity, Autonomy and Persons with Disabilities Jean-Christophe Combe (L) and France's Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau, leaves the presidential Elysee Palace after attending the weekly cabinet meeting in Paris on July 13, 2023. (Photo by Geoffroy VAN DER HASSELT / AFP)
July 13, 2023, 7:06 pm
France passes law making it easier for Jews to reclaim Nazi-stolen art
Both houses of parliament unanimously vote in legislation cutting red tape for returning works from French museums to former owners
By AFP
Tourists stand near a disputed Wassily Kandinsky painting at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, July 10, 2019. (Canaan Lidor)
March 29, 2023, 3:29 pm
Art in spotlight as 9 countries’ Holocaust envoys hold 1st gathering on restitution
US delegate Ellen Germain say conference meant to ensure governments are building on each other’s experience
By Canaan Lidor
Ellen Germain, US special envoy on Holocaust issues, listens during a panel before a screening of 'The US and the Holocaust' at the United Nations in New York, February 9, 2023. (John Lamparski/Getty Images via JTA)
March 14, 2023, 2:19 am
As Europe celebrates its past, US Holocaust envoy reminds states of their darker side
Ellen Germain is keeping tabs as certain countries quietly attempt to revise their histories, working to ensure that a fair and nuanced vision of the past is maintained
By Ron Kampeas
Edvard Munch, 'Dance on the Beach.' (Reinhardt Frieze). (Courtesy of Sotheby's)
February 24, 2023, 3:23 am
Heirs of Nazi-persecuted collector hail justice in auction of Edvard Munch painting
Prof. Curt Glaser sold ‘Dance on the Beach’ under duress in the 1930s. Now, the 1906 masterpiece is expected to fetch $15-25 million after a deal was struck with the current owner
By Robert Philpot
Detail from Pablo Picasso, “Woman Ironing,” 1904. (Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; via Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York)
January 30, 2023, 11:39 am
Jewish heirs of owner who fled Nazis sue Guggenheim Museum for $200 million Picasso
Lawsuit claims 1904 ‘Woman Ironing,’ hanging at NY institution since 1978, was sold under duress in 1938; museum insists sale was a ‘fair transaction,’ says suit is without merit
By ToI Staff
A Maria Lactans, or breastfeeding Virgin Mary statuette, which was returned to the heirs of Jewish-German banker Jakob Goldschmidt, on January 20, 2023. (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation)
January 24, 2023, 3:36 pm
Virgin Mary sculpture sold under Nazi duress returned to Jewish owner’s heirs
Germany finds 16th-century breastfeeding statuette was sold in 1936 by collector Jakob Goldschmidt under unfair financial conditions
By Michael Horovitz
Illustrative: US Ambassador to the Lithuania Robert S. Gilchrist, left, pauses after laying a wreath at the Holocaust memorial at Paneriai during the ceremony marking the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day in Vilnius, Lithuania, April 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
December 31, 2022, 8:05 am
Lithuania passes law allocating $38 million in restitution for Holocaust survivors
Lithuanian parliament nearly doubles money already set aside for claims in country where 90% of Jews were killed in the Holocaust; bill not supported by all lawmakers
By David I. Klein
A Ludwig van Beethoven's music manuscript, is seen in the Moravian Museum's collection in Brno on Nov. 30 2022, in Brno, Slovakia (Šálek Václav/CTK via AP)
December 3, 2022, 2:05 pm
Czech museum to return original Beethoven score to family that fled Holocaust
Petschek family tried, but failed, to send handwritten manuscript abroad by mail in March 1939 during the Nazi occupation, drawing the attention of the Gestapo
By Karel Janicek
The Wassily Kandinsky painting 'View of Murnau with Church,' which was returned in September 2022 to the descendants of a Jewish art collector who was murdered in the Holocaust. (Public domain)
September 29, 2022, 2:44 pm
Reversing earlier stance, Netherlands to return looted Kandinsky to Jewish family
Relatives of murdered Auschwitz victim Johanna Margarethe Stern-Lippmann will regain ‘View of Murnau with Church,’ displayed in the Dutch city of Eindhoven’s art museum since 1951
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Jewish youth participating in the March of the Living at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland on May 2, 2019 (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
July 4, 2022, 3:04 pm
After year-long spat over Holocaust law, Poland says it’s returning envoy to Israel
In phone call with Herzog, President Andrzej Duda pledges to return ambassador after 2021 restitution law fight, but tensions remain around students’ Holocaust trips
By Lazar Berman
Menachem Kaiser's nonfiction book 'Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure' was announced the 2022 winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. (Beowulf Sheehan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
May 19, 2022, 10:16 am
Menachem Kaiser’s memoir on reclaiming his family’s Polish home wins Sami Rohr prize
In debut book, writer recounts efforts to regain ownership of house that belonged to his grandfather before the Holocaust
By Andrew Lapin
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