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Personnel from the FBI’s Art Crime Team hold a framed work by Marc Chagall, 'Othello and Desdemona,' prior to its return to the owners’ estate nearly 30 years after it was stolen. (FBI)
April 17, 2018, 8:58 am
Chagall painting recovered 30 years after theft
Family’s estate to auction ‘Othello and Desdemona,’ stolen in 1988 along with other artworks in what FBI say was inside job
By AFP
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
Italian Carabinieri officer Massimo Maresca shows the first century AC Druso marble head during an interview in the Carabinieri barracks, Friday, September 1, 2017 (AP/Alessandra Tarantino)
September 2, 2017, 4:18 am
Italy displays marble Roman head stolen in World War II
Sculpture depicting Roman Emperor Tiberius’ son Drusus was believed to have been first taken to Algeria, eventually moved to France, and in 2004, auctioned off
By AP
Museum of Fine Arts (Kunstmuseum) in Bern, May 8, 2014. (AFP/FABRICE COFFRINI)
June 27, 2017, 9:56 pm
German museum shows Nazi-looted artwork from recluse’s trove
Collection of paintings confiscated from Jews and found in home of Cornelius Gurlitt to be exhibited simultaneously in Bonn, Bern
By Agencies and TOI staff
Anne-Marie O'Connor, left, and Ora Ahimeir, just prior to a discussion as part of the Personal Pages: Meet the Authors series at the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem's Old City, May 15, 2017. (Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel)
May 16, 2017, 2:59 pm
At TOI event, bestselling authors present true stories of women of valor
Writers Anne-Marie O’Connor and Ora Ahimeir tackle women’s resilience during genocide in discussion at Jerusalem’s Tower of David Museum
By Yaakov Schwartz
In this file photo taken Wednesday, April 13, 2016, Eli and Shuli Barzilai hold a copy of the Birds' Head Haggadah, the text read around Jewish dinner tables on the Passover holiday, in their home in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, File)
April 10, 2017, 11:35 am
Jewish family renews fight for world’s oldest illustrated haggadah
13th-century Passover manuscript, owned by German Jewish lawmaker Ludwig Marum until he was taken by the Nazis, now housed in the Israel Museum
By Daniel Estrin
Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky, left, with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. (Wikimedia commons/kremlin.ru)
December 16, 2016, 7:43 pm
Did Russia meddle in recent US art theft legislation?
New congressionally approved bills provide immunity from seizure of foreign works on loan in the States. As one critic alleges the Hermitage had undue influence, is it just a case of jumping on the anti-Russia bandwagon?
By Rich Tenorio
The Amber Room of St. Petersburg's Catherine Palace in 1931. (Branson DeCou, public domain via Wikimedia Commons)
From the WebJune 11, 2016, 2:12 am
Could long-lost Amber Room be stashed in a Nazi bunker in Poland?
New York Times: Historian in northeast Poland believes he’s found missing Russian treasure stolen by Germany at end of World War II
Actress Helen Mirren attends the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, January 30, 2016. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
June 8, 2016, 8:07 am
Helen Mirren urges Senate on bill aiding return of Nazi stolen art
Actress calls for passing legislation to increase statute of limitations in cases of items taken from Jews during Holocaust
By JTA
The Judean Desert's Cave of Skulls, where six Palestinians illegally dug for antiquities and were arrested on November 30, 2014. (Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)
May 16, 2016, 8:07 am
In new crackdown, antiquities authorities tighten noose around dealers, thieves
Regulatory agency mandates digital database, ‘closing the loopholes’ to prevent stolen artifacts reaching the Israeli market
By Ilan Ben Zion
French Culture Minister Audrey Azoulay, left, and Viviane Dreyfus daughter of the late Maurice Dreyfus pose next to the late 19th century drawing "Trois danseuses en buste" by Edgar Degas, as she listens to the speech of French Culture Minister Audrey Azoulay in Paris, France, Monday, May 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
May 10, 2016, 4:35 am
France restores Nazi-stolen Degas drawing to Jewish owners
Late 19th century sketch of three ballerinas restituted to daughter of Maurice Dreyfus, who never mentioned piece was taken by Germany
By Thomas Adamson
From left: Dimitri Leonidas, George Clooney, John Goodman, Bob Balaban and Matt Damon in the film, 'The Monuments Men.' (AP/Columbia Pictures/Claudette Barius)
May 6, 2016, 6:20 pm
Dallas Holocaust Museum gets menorah taken from Europe in WWII
Artifact donated by Monuments Men Foundation, an organization celebrated in 2014 film starring George Clooney
By JTA
Rue Saint-Honore, Apres-midi, Effet de Pluie by Camille Pissarro (Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
February 6, 2016, 4:25 am
California A-G seeks Nazi-stolen artwork
Kamala Harris asks federal court to reverse ruling allowing Spanish museum to keep Pissarro painting stolen from Jewish family
By AP
Detail from The Beggar, courtesy of the The Company for Location and Restitution of Holocaust Victims’ Assets
December 15, 2015, 7:27 pm
Artwork stolen by Nazis found… at Israeli museum
Art sleuth singles out painting brought to Kibbutz Ein Harod in 1954
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: A painting by Claude Monet, Au-dessus de Vétheuil (Effet de printemps), that was reproduced on the website lostart.de, a website publishing reproductions of art suspected of having been looted by the Nazis during World War II. (Courtesy lostart.de)
November 17, 2015, 11:43 pm
German museum finds 18 pieces of possible Nazi-looted art
Sculptures and drawings in the Kunsthalle Mannheim include works by artists Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Max Slevogt and Edgar Degas
By JTA
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