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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 369

Nazi looting

Courier service staff prepare to ship the 16th-century Italian painting 'Madonna with Child,' attributed to Alessandro Turchi, which was looted from a private Polish collection by Nazi Germany during World War II, at the Polish Embassy in Tokyo on Thursday, June 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
July 24, 2024, 10:22 pm
Germany moves to ease return of art looted by Nazis to rightful owners
Draft legislation would create a new ‘right to information’ for victims from whom works were taken between 1933-1945, suspend statute of limitations for return of artworks
By AFP
Bettina Farack, a research fellow at the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem, speaks about the Library of Lost Books initiative during a launch event in Berlin in November 2023. (Courtesy Weiner Library via JTA)
July 6, 2024, 3:59 am
Amateur detectives invited to join search for lost Jewish library looted by Nazis
Researchers from the Leo Baeck Institute seek to virtually reunite 60,000 texts from the modern liberal Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin, destroyed in the Holocaust
By Shira Li Bartov
Vincent van Gogh's "Der alte Turm," 1884. (Public Domain)
June 21, 2024, 9:46 am
Swiss museum takes down 5 paintings looted by Nazis as part of probe into origins
Foundation that owns pieces, including by van Gogh and Monet, says it is working to reach fair settlement with descendants of former owners
By Jamey Keaten
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
A wristwatch and a pair of earrings belonging to deceased Stanislawa Mordes are seen on June 11, 2024, in Warsaw, during a ceremony of returning the personal effects to the families of two Polish victims killed following the Warsaw Uprising from 1944. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)
June 11, 2024, 11:45 pm
Germany returns items to descendants of Poles killed at Nazi camps
Arolsen Archives hands over watch, earring, brooch and powder compact as part of efforts to retrace the fate of Third Reich’s 17.5 million victims
By AFP
Works of art by Austrian expressionist artist Egon Schiele on display at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, September 20, 2023, during a ceremony returning the pieces to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum. (AP/Bobby Caina Calvan)
March 9, 2024, 10:11 am
21 more countries agree to updated guidelines on restituting Nazi-looted art
WJRO and Claims Conference say 24 nations made minimal to no progress on issue, adding that it’s more difficult when it comes to pieces in private hands rather than public collections
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Tourists view a disputed Wassily Kandinsky painting at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, July 10, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
March 6, 2024, 12:45 am
Report lists 24 countries making ‘little to no progress’ in returning Nazi-looted art
The noncompliant states, which include major economies and EU members, are named in a report unveiled at a State Department event promoting restitution
By Canaan Lidor
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
View of the entrance to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, June 26, 2023 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
July 15, 2023, 3:38 am
Tel Aviv Museum reexamines donation from fortune of Nazi war criminal
Institution looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars given a decade ago by Ingrid Flick, who inherited money from German industrialist found guilty of war crimes
By ToI Staff
Christie's international head of jewelry, Rahul Kadakia, speaks on his mobile telephone behind a display case of jewels during a press preview of the 'World of Heidi Horten' sales in Geneva, on May 8, 2023. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
July 2, 2023, 10:08 pm
Tel Aviv museum cancels event with Christie’s after auction of Nazi-linked jewelry
Tel Aviv Museum of Art faced criticism for collaboration with auction house after sale of collection belonging to a family that became rich by dispossessing Jews during Holocaust
By Asaf Shalev
Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, 12 September 2006. (Andrew Dunn, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia)
March 29, 2023, 11:35 pm
UK museum to return painting stolen by Nazis to family of Jewish owner
Cambridge University’s Fitzwilliam Museum surrenders 19th-century painting by French artist Gustave Courbet stolen from Paris apartment of Robert Bing in 1941
By AFP
Fritz Grünbaum, left, was an Austrian Jewish cabaret performer and art collector. Egon Schiele's 'Woman in a Black Pinafore' is shown right. (Courtesy of CHRISTIE'S IMAGES LTD. 2022 and Getty Images via JTA)
October 27, 2022, 10:29 pm
2 Nazi-looted paintings, returned to heirs of owner, to be auctioned for charity
Works by artist Egon Schiele, seized from Jewish cabaret artist Fritz Grunbaum during the Holocaust, are expected to fetch $2.8 million
By Jackie Hajdenberg
The painting at center, 'The Rape of Tamar,' was sold by a Jewish family under duress in Germany in the 1930s. Seen at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, August 20, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
September 2, 2022, 6:23 am
New York law on Nazi-looted art aims to shine light on lesser-known Holocaust evil
Amid widespread ignorance about genocide, state law requiring museums to label plundered art will inform public and pressure museums, but implementation remains unclear
By Luke Tress
Nadia Vulvokov (Natasha Lyonne) and her friend Maxine (Greta Lee) encounter the grave of a Hungarian priest who saved Jews during the Holocaust, in Season 2 of "Russian Doll." (Netflix via JTA)
April 26, 2022, 4:53 am
The true story behind Nazi-looted ‘Hungarian Gold Train’ in Netflix’s ‘Russian Doll’
Sci-fi drama explores story of infamous train filled with art, silver and other valuables stolen by Nazis from Hungarian Jews, then pillaged again by American forces after the war
By PHILISSA CRAMER
French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot poses next to an oil painting by Gustav Klimt painted in 1905 called 'Rosebushes under the Trees,' during a ceremony at the Orsay museum in Paris, March 15, 2021. (Alain Jocard/Pool Photo via AP)
January 30, 2022, 12:38 pm
France votes to restore 15 works of art looted by Nazis to Jewish heirs
Culture Minister Bachelot hails ‘historic’ bill; Senate approval still needed; among pieces to be returned are a Klimt and a Chagall
By AFP and ToI Staff
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