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Items stolen in the Holocaust

The name of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz photographed at 'Gleis 17', Track 17, the memorial site for the train transportation from Berlin to the camp, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Berlin, Jan. 27, 2024 (AP/Markus Schreiber)
November 16, 2025, 7:21 pm
Survivors demand German auction house halt sale of Holocaust artifacts
International Auschwitz Committee says sale of personal letters and Gestapo index cards is ‘a cynical and shameless undertaking’ that exploits persecution for ‘commercial gain’
By AP
La Route Montante (The Road), 1884, by French painter Paul Gauguin (1848-1903). The painting is part of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection and can be viewed at the Kunsthaus in Zurich, Switzerland. (Public domain)
June 25, 2025, 8:09 pm
Swiss museum reaches deal to keep Gauguin work sold by Jews fleeing Nazi Germany
French master’s 1884 ‘The Street’ is one of five originally Jewish-owned works removed by Kunsthaus Zurich that were looted or sold under duress and swept up by German arms dealer
By Agencies
"Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy" (Tate Britain)
March 30, 2025, 5:44 am
UK’s Tate Britain gallery to return Nazi-looted painting to heirs of Jewish collector
Spoliation Advisory Panel rules that ‘Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy’ will be returned to descendants of Samuel Hartveld, who fled Antwerp with his wife in May 1940
By LAURIE CHURCHMAN
Matthias Weniger, curator of the Bavarian National Museum, lifts one of 111 silver objects, stolen by the Nazis from Jews during the Third Reich, in Munich, Germany, June 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
June 13, 2023, 2:57 pm
Applying stolen silver sleuth skills, German curator returns Nazi-looted heirlooms
Matthias Weniger has made it his mission to give back silver objects that ‘are often the only material things that remain from an existence wiped out in the Holocaust’
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Illustrative: In this photo taken on July 16, 2012 documents coming from the Archives of Paris Police Prefecture and showing lists of Jewish people registered during WWII, are presented for an exhibition of French archives on Shoah in Paris. (AP/Remy de la Mauviniere)
July 24, 2021, 12:51 am
Trove of Jewish artifacts stolen during Holocaust now in US custody
Funeral scrolls, manuscripts, other historic records traced to Jewish communities in Romania, Hungary, Ukraine and Slovakia were to be auctioned off in New York City
By AP
The National Holocaust Museum of the Netherlands in Amsterdam. (Luuk Kramer/Courtesy of the Jewish Cultural Quarter of Amsterdam via JTA)
May 28, 2020, 9:37 am
80% of Dutch cities involved in theft of Jewish property have no record of it
Report publishes first map of Jewish-owned assets stolen during World War II, finds total worth was equivalent to $640 million today
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Paul Signac, Quai de Clichy (date unknown). (courtesy: German Lost Art Foundation)
July 3, 2019, 7:43 pm
Germany hands back Nazi-looted painting to Jewish heirs
Paul Signat’s ‘Quai de Clichy,’ found in Gurlitt hoard, returned to family of Gaston Prosper Levy, who fled from Nazis in France
By AFP
Illustrative: Members of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims in Luxembourg for the signing of the Reparations Agreement between the German Federal Republic, the State of Israel, and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims, in 1952. Among those pictured is Benjamin Ferencz (second row from the front, second from the left). (Ben Ferencz/USHMM)
April 22, 2019, 6:18 am
Wealthy Luxembourg is western Europe’s last Holocaust restitution deadbeat
A 1950 law prevents about 75% of roughly 4,000 Jews who had lived there before the Nazi invasion of 1940 from applying for compensation for stolen property
By Cnaan Liphshiz
In 1944, Hungarian Jews line up outside the 'Glass House' building from which Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz helped save the lives of tens of thousands of people. (FOTO:FORTEPAN / Archiv für Zeitgeschichte ETH Zürich / Agnes Hirschi)
January 16, 2019, 4:05 pm
DC court says Holocaust survivors can sue Hungary in the US for huge reparations
Potential multi-billion dollar suit dates back to 2010. Appeals court rules that in pursuit of justice, case can be tried in States. Lawyers say decision could go to Supreme Court
By Yaakov Schwartz
Carolin Lange inspecting the back/the frame of an oil painting. (Landesstelle für die nichtstaatlichen Museen in Bayern)
April 25, 2018, 9:00 am
Jewish ghosts linger as German households still make use of stolen heirlooms
Launching a new, unique, confidential study, Dr. Carolin Lange is trying to find out if and why Germans continue to hold on to everyday items taken from Jews during the Holocaust
By Dina Gold
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