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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 347

restitution

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
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
Prince Friedrich zu Solms-Baruth III on horseback with friends in this undated photo. (Courtesy Prince Friedrich zu Solms-Baruth V)
December 8, 2021, 8:25 pm
German prince fights for estate ‘stolen’ after his grandfather tried to kill Hitler
Prince Friedrich zu Solms-Baruth III was tortured and imprisoned after being involved in Operation Valkyrie; his heirs want their property back, but Germany’s government disagrees
By Robert Philpot
Michael Keaton as Kenneth Feinberg and Stanley Tucci as Charles Wolf in the Netflix film 'Worth.' (Monika Lek/Netflix/ via JTA)
September 4, 2021, 3:51 pm
Kenneth Feinberg helps 9/11 families find ‘Worth’ in Obama-produced Netflix film
Filmmakers play it safe in the historical drama out Sept. 3 about a controversial victim compensation fund, avoiding grittier details in an effort that rings hollow 20 years later
By Andrew Lapin
A view of Luxembourg City's City Hall in 2008. Hundreds of real estate properties in the city could be subject to Holocaust restitution claims. (Wikimedia Commons/via JTA)
January 27, 2021, 5:43 pm
Luxembourg signs restitution deal to pay for funds, art looted during Holocaust
Agreement announced on International Holocaust Remembrance Day also provides financial resources to promote remembrance, education and research of Jewish genocide
By AP
A location used for filming 'Queen's Gambit,' Schloss Schulzendorf in Germany, outside Berlin, November 2020. (courtesy: Felipe Tofani/Fotostrasse.com)
January 8, 2021, 4:40 pm
Queen’s Gambit orphanage is German Jewish-built castle that was seized by Nazis
The hidden, tragic story of Schloss Schulzendorf, built by a Berlin department store owner, confiscated by Third Reich, obscured by the Soviets, restituted, abandoned, rediscovered
By Matt Lebovic
Retired schoolteacher Jacques Sigot shows photos taken of unidentified inmates of a camp where thousands of French Gypsies were interned in the village of Montreuil-Bellay, in the Saumur wine region, during World War II, Sept. 8, 2010 (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
September 26, 2020, 11:53 am
French court blocks Roma bid for restitution under Jewish Holocaust victim laws
Top court says it’s legal to differentiate between victim groups, because only Jews were subject to a ‘policy of systematic extermination’
By Agencies
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
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki visits the Ulma Family Museum that documents the fate of the Polish Ulma family, killed in March 1944 by Nazi Germans for rescuing Jews during the Holocaust, in the village of Markowa, southeastern Poland, on January 2, 2018 (AFP/Janek Skarzynski)
March 27, 2018, 1:42 am
59 US senators protest Poland’s Holocaust restitution bill
Proposal ‘would discriminate against virtually all American survivors and heirs on the basis that they are not currently citizens of Poland,’ lawmakers say
By JTA
Warsaw Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz (Wikimedia Commons, Platforma Obywatelska RP, CC BY-SA 2.0)
June 13, 2017, 9:47 am
Warsaw mayor to testify in Jewish property restitution probe
State commission investigates questionable returns of valuable properties seized under 1945 communist-era decree
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
Graves of Jewish victims of the Iași pogrom in Romania on July 1, 1941. (Wikimedia commons)
May 22, 2017, 7:32 am
Romania to raise payments for Holocaust survivors
From July, state to pay up to $98 per month for each year of a person’s deportation or detention
By JTA
This undated photo provided by Staatliche Museen zu Berlin shows the sculpture 'Lying Lion' by August Gaul, an art piece from the collection of German-Jewish publisher Rudolf Mosse. (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin via AP)
March 8, 2017, 3:29 pm
Historic alliance to locate looted Holocaust art is an exercise in ‘reconciliation’
With over 4,000 artworks to be recovered, an unprecedented cooperative of public and private institutions steamrolls restitution for the estate of exiled magnate Rudolf Mosse
By Lisa Klug
An Antonine-era mummy portrait of a young woman from the University of Zurich restituted to the heirs of a German Jewish publisher in April 2016. (Frank Tomio/University of Zurich)
October 25, 2016, 7:30 pm
Mummy portraits stolen by Nazis, recovered, sell for over $300,000
Swiss university bought the two paintings from widow of ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ author, recently returned them to heirs of German Jew
By Ilan Ben Zion
Warsaw Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz (Wikimedia Commons, Platforma Obywatelska RP, CC BY-SA 2.0)
August 27, 2016, 8:15 am
Warsaw officials fired in row over communist-era restitutions
City’s mayor says she wants commission to review every return of property that took place in area since 1990
By AP
The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California, January 21, 2015. (AP Photo/John Antczak,)
August 23, 2016, 4:47 pm
Nazi-looted ‘Adam’ and ‘Eve’ paintings to stay in California
Ending 10-year legal battle, US court rules that seized masterpieces need not be given to relatives of original Jewish owners
By AP
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