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A Los Angeles couple, Craig Gilmore, left, and David Crocker, pose in front of a 17th painting, "Portrait of a Lady" by the Flemish artist Melchior Geldorp at the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland, April 5, 2019. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
May 5, 2019, 5:07 pm
Looted Nazi art and LGBT rights merge in recovery of Polish painting
After their prized 17th-century portrait is revealed to have been stolen from Poland’s National Museum, Los Angles same-sex couple turns setback into equality campaign
By Vanessa Gera
19th century murals that had remained concealed under several coats of paint discovered during preparations for the reopening of Stockholm’s Jewish museum at what used to be the Tyska Brunnsplan Synagogue (Jean-Baptiste Béranger/ Jewish Museum of Stokholm)
April 19, 2019, 4:32 pm
Rare 19th-century murals discovered inside former synagogue in Sweden
Most similar German-influenced decorations were destroyed by the Nazis; city’s second Jewish house of worship being transformed into a museum
By JTA
The 1639 painting by Salomon Koninck titled "A Scholar Sharpening His Quill" looted by the Nazis from the Schloss family during World War II, is unveiled on April 1, 2019 at the French Consulate in New York City. (Photo by Don Emmert / AFP)
April 3, 2019, 9:12 am
Heirs welcome return of Nazi-looted 17th-century masterpiece
But in a New York ceremony unveiling the painting, Vernay family also accuses French government of dragging its feet on hundreds of other stolen artworks
By Catherine TRIOMPHE
Hilde Schramm, daughter of Hitler's architect Albert Speer, receives the Jewish history award for a foundation she founded to support Jewish women's cultural projects. January 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
January 21, 2019, 8:32 pm
Nazi architect Speer’s daughter sold his paintings to fund Jewish women’s causes
Her father was Hitler’s builder and armaments minister; Hilde Schramm used the proceeds of his collection of paintings to start a foundation
By David Rising
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
A painting by Henri Matisse entitled "The Blue Blouse" is seen at the Kunstmuseum Bern in Bern, Switzerland on December 4, 2018 (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
January 6, 2019, 8:28 am
The art of shedding light on gifts with possible Nazi ties
Bern’s Kunstmuseum wants to audit the provenance of all paintings donated by Georges F. Keller, after ties to a French dealer who traded art with the Nazis are revealed
By Ben Simon
Dr. Kurt Hamann, left, and one of the buildings at Auschwitz insured by the Victoria Insurance Company, of which he was chair from 1935 to 1968. (Courtesy Victoria/ERGO; Yad Vashem)
December 30, 2018, 4:30 am
Head of firm that insured Auschwitz workshops stripped of posthumous honor
After discovery that Victoria Insurance foreclosed on Jewish homes and covered slave labor factories, German university rededicates institute and prize named after Kurt Hamann
By Dina Gold
Illustrative: Adolf Hitler, right, looking at a stolen artwork in 1940. (Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)
November 28, 2018, 2:40 am
US says five countries falling short on returning Nazi-looted art
Hungary, Poland, Spain, Russia and Italy named by State Department official as failing to fulfill commitments to restitute pieces of work stolen during World War II
By JTA
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman speaks at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, Sept. 12, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
October 21, 2018, 11:46 am
US government seeks to recover Jewish art collector’s painting stolen by Nazis
FBI has seized the painting, but a court order is required to return ‘A Scholar Sharpening His Quill’ by Salomon Koninck to the Schloss family
By TOI staff and Agencies
The home of Cornelius Gurlitt in Salzburg, Austria, November 18, 2013 (photo credit: AFP Wildbild)
September 10, 2018, 9:53 pm
German officials: 4 works kept by collector’s sister were Nazi-looted art
Benita Renate Gurlitt, who died in 2012, was the sister of Cornelius Gurlitt, whose vast art trove authorities found several years ago
By AP
The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California, January 21, 2015. (AP Photo/John Antczak,)
August 1, 2018, 12:00 pm
Court lets California museum keep Nazi-looted art
US appeals court rules that seized masterpieces need not be given to relatives of original Jewish owners
By AP
Hermann Goering speaking with a foreign journalist in his private garden in Augsburg , Germany, May 13, 1945. (Getty Images via JTA)
April 17, 2018, 8:18 am
Auction house offers antique Jewish Bible stolen by Goering
Nazi leader took rare 17th century volume from a Beaugency doctor during World War II; tome recovered by French soldiers in 1945
By JTA
Illustrative: Confiscated gold rings of Buchenwald concentration camp prisoners. (Public domain/Wikimedia)
November 9, 2017, 4:55 pm
Germany’s central bank will examine its history, focusing on the Nazi years
Deutsche Bundesbank $4.5 million project to explore the institute’s possible impact on war strategy, suggestions that it laundered looted gold
By JTA
A scene from the film '1945.' (Courtesy of Menemsha Films/via JTA)
October 28, 2017, 1:16 pm
Taboo-breaking film depicts Hungary’s grim welcome to Holocaust survivors
Screening November 1, award-winning fictional movie has struck a nerve among Hungarian Jews whose families lived through the suspicion and hostility it depicts
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The sculpture 'Kauernde' (lit. 'Cowering') by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is on display during a press talk on the preparations of an exhibition of exemplary works from the art collection of Cornelius Gurlitt discovered in 2012, in November in Bonn, Germany, Tuesday June, 27, 2017. (Henning Kaiser/dpa via AP)
July 8, 2017, 8:23 am
First works from Nazi-era art hoard arrive at Bern museum
The collection was left by Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of an art dealer tasked by the Nazis with selling art stolen from Jews
By AFP
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