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Monuments Men

Private First Class Richard Barancik joined the 'Monuments Men' in 1945; after the war, he became a prolific architect in Chicago. (Monuments Men and Women Foundation; Dignity Memorial via JTA)
July 26, 2023, 6:34 pm
Richard Barancik, last of ‘Monuments Men’ who recovered Nazi loot, dies at 98
Barancik served in Salzburg, Austria where he helped collect stolen treasures and return them to original Jewish owners
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
A rare Meissen armorial tea and coffee service made for the Morosini family, dated 1731. (Sotheby's)
September 23, 2021, 10:34 am
18th-century porcelain seized by Nazis smashes expectations in auction sale
Hoard of Dresden antiques, restored to descendants of couple who escaped Germany, sells for over $13 milllion at Sotheby’s in New York
By Amy Spiro and ToI Staff
A rare Meissen armorial tea and coffee service made for the Morosini family, dated 1731. (Sotheby's)
September 6, 2021, 9:25 am
18th-century porcelain seized by Nazis to be auctioned in restitution effort
More than 100 items of Meissen porcelain, recovered by the famed ‘Monuments Men,’ are set to be sold next week at Sotheby’s in New York
By Amy Spiro
Illustrative: A combination of photos released by prosecutors in Augsburg, Germany on November 12, 2013 show five of the more than 1,500 paintings believed looted by the Nazis, seized from a Munich flat of Cornelius Gurlitt. (Lostart.de/Augsburg prosecutors/ AFP/File)
November 7, 2017, 11:10 pm
The tricky process of returning Nazi-looted art
Tens of thousands of works remain ‘orphaned’ with the heirs of original owners unknown
By Robin GREMMEL
Gabriel Metsu's 'An Officer Paying Court to a Young Woman' (Courtesy)
April 23, 2016, 8:17 am
Painting looted by Nazis coming to auction in NYC
Gabriel Metsu’s ‘An Officer Paying Court to a Young Woman’ expected to sell for $6 million
By AP
Brothers Nick and Simon Goodman holding a reclaimed Degas landscape, Chicago, 1998. (Courtesy of Goodman family)
August 28, 2015, 4:45 am
After father’s death, sons find they are heirs to huge Nazi-looted art collection
Raised in a shroud of secrecy, Simon Goodman details his quest to reclaim his family, and its birthright, in remarkable new book
By Anne Joseph
Darrell English, founder of the New England Holocaust Institute & Museum, has amassed 3,000 objects connected to the Shoah during 40 years of buying, selling and trading artifacts. Here, English examines an original Nazi propaganda filmstrip related to the 'T4' euthanasia program, one item in his Massachusetts-based collection. (photo credit: Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
June 21, 2015, 4:27 pm
Holocaust artifact hunter seeks home for massive collection
In a remote corner of western Massachusetts, one antiquarian is working to create a permanent Shoah museum based on a lifetime of collecting proof of the Nazis’ genocide
By Matt Lebovic
This photo provided by The Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art of Dallas, shows Monuments Man James Rorimer, with notepad, as he supervises American GI's hand-carrying paintings down the steps of the castle in Neuschwanstein, Germany in May of 1945. (photo credit: AP/National Archives and Records Administration)
June 8, 2014, 2:01 pm
Appeals court revives case for Nazi-looted art
The 1530 paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder, worth some $24 m., may have inspired the title sequence of ‘Desperate Housewives’
By AP
French Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti (Photo credit: CC-BY-SA Thesupermat/Wikimedia Commons)
March 10, 2014, 3:12 pm
France to return three Nazi-looted artworks
As ‘Monuments Men’ hits French screens, culture minister said to welcome ‘gesture of remembrance’
By JTA
Oscar nominated short documentary "The Lady in Number 6" (courtesy: Nick Reed Entertainment.)
February 28, 2014, 8:22 pm
Hollywood preps for annual night of backslapping
Best Short Doc should go to ‘The Lady in Number Six,’ about the late Alice Herz-Sommer, 110-year-old Holocaust survivor and musician
By Jordan Hoffman
German-born Harry Ettlinger, a Jewish member of the 'Monuments Men,' stands in front of a Rembrandt painting at the art museum Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe, southern Germany on Saturday, February 15, 2014 (photo credit: DPA/AFP Uli Deck)
February 17, 2014, 10:54 am
Jewish ‘Monuments Man’ honored by German hometown
Harry Ettlinger accepts a medal for his role in a unit tasked with salvaging works of art stolen by the Nazis
By AFP
Jonah Hill and Leonardo DiCaprio in 'Wolf of Wall Street' (courtesy Paramount Pictures)
February 7, 2014, 1:43 pm
Hill and DiCaprio reteam for Olympics terror tale
Also, her royal va-va-va-voomship Queen Eva Green, Clooney rescues art, and comedy’s built from bricks
By Jordan Hoffman
This photo provided by The Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art of Dallas, shows Monuments Man James Rorimer, left, and Sgt. Antonio Valim examining valuable art objects at Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany which were stolen from the Rothschild collection in France by the ERR and found in the castle in May of 1945. (AP Photo/National Archives and Records Administration)
February 7, 2014, 12:19 pm
Monuments Men group lists ‘most wanted’ works
Hundreds of thousands of Nazi-looted treasures still missing
By AP
Gun-slinging art 'saviors' in 'The Monuments Men' (Sony/Columbia Pictures)
February 6, 2014, 8:57 pm
Like the WWII operation, Clooney film only somewhat successful
If you’re looking for a movie about rescuing art from the Nazis, ‘The Monuments Men’ is not the one to see, says The Times of Israel’s critic
By Jordan Hoffman
From left: Dimitri Leonidas, George Clooney, John Goodman, Bob Balaban and Matt Damon in the film, 'The Monuments Men.' (AP/Columbia Pictures/Claudette Barius)
February 6, 2014, 4:06 am
A look at the real men portrayed in ‘Monuments Men’
Architects, artists, curators and museum directors were part of an allied mission to save Europe’s art during WWII
By Jamie Stengle
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