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A pair of finials, which adorned the wooden rollers of a Torah scroll, are among the artifacts being returned to Greece. (Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw)
March 4, 2026, 11:19 pm
Poland, in a first, returns 91 Jewish objects to Greece that were stolen by Nazis
Judaica was plundered from once-thriving Jewish community of Thessaloniki in 1941; found in Poland after the war, it was kept for decades in Warsaw’s Jewish Historical Institute
By Shira Li Bartov
Rabbi Tanya Segal at 12 Jozefa Street in Krakow, Poland, as she is evicted from her apartment, July 31, 2025. (Courtesy of Marta Kalamar via JTA)
August 23, 2025, 12:32 pm
Rabbi evicted from Krakow home once owned by Jews murdered in Holocaust
Tanya Segal, Poland’s first female rabbi, loses her apartment in building featured in ‘Schindler’s List’ thanks to Poland’s lack of Holocaust restitution laws
By Toby Axelrod
A boy visiting the Kazerne Dossin Holocaust museum in Mechelen, Belgium, on December 22, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
January 23, 2025, 9:03 am
No need for Belgium’s railway to pay for sending Jews to death camps, panel finds
Government commission concludes Belgian National Railway Company should apologize for WWII transports; Holocaust restitution group pans outcome
By Shira Li Bartov
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
Illustrative: The flags, from left to right, of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania at a ceremony in Riga, Latvia, in 2012. (Pablo Andrés Rivero via JTA)
December 20, 2023, 10:10 am
In shift, Latvia and Lithuania to pay Holocaust survivors, heirs for stolen property
Countries open up limited time slots to apply for restitution, after decades of Soviet rule prevented compensation for Nazi massacres
By Shira Li Bartov
Tourists stand near a disputed Wassily Kandinsky painting at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, July 10, 2019. (Canaan Lidor)
March 29, 2023, 3:29 pm
Art in spotlight as 9 countries’ Holocaust envoys hold 1st gathering on restitution
US delegate Ellen Germain say conference meant to ensure governments are building on each other’s experience
By Canaan Lidor
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
Mark Weitzman, chief operating officer of the World Jewish Restitution Organization in the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, in an undated photograph. (WJRO)
November 1, 2022, 2:06 am
Nearly 80 years on, the fight for Holocaust restitution continues in many countries
Mark Weitzman, who helped develop the now ubiquitous IHRA definition of antisemitism, is gearing up to meet European officials this week to negotiate reparations for survivors
By Judah Ari Gross
The memorial on the ruins of the Riga Choral Synagogue burned to the ground by Nazis in 1941, in memory of those who perished in the blaze, seen in Riga, Latvia, on February 10, 2022. (Roman Koksarov/AP)
February 10, 2022, 7:47 pm
Latvia passes long-awaited Holocaust restitution law, aims to revitalize Jewish life
Parliament approves spending $45 million over ten years on its 9,500-strong Jewish community; will provide social and material assistance to survivors
By AP
Illustrative: In this photo taken on July 16, 2012 documents coming from the Archives of Paris Police Prefecture and showing lists of Jewish people registered during WWII, are presented for an exhibition of French archives on Shoah in Paris. (AP/Remy de la Mauviniere)
July 24, 2021, 12:51 am
Trove of Jewish artifacts stolen during Holocaust now in US custody
Funeral scrolls, manuscripts, other historic records traced to Jewish communities in Romania, Hungary, Ukraine and Slovakia were to be auctioned off in New York City
By AP
Illustrative: After the surrender of Nazi Germany, Chaplain Samuel Blinder is seen in the cellar of the former Institute for Racial Sciences in Frankfurt, July 6, 1945. Standing amid a collection of manuscripts and books taken from every Nazi occupied country in Europe, he examines one of hundredsTorah scrolls (AP Photo)
July 23, 2021, 3:48 am
US seizes artifacts looted from WWII Eastern European Jewish communities
17 funeral scrolls, manuscripts and community records from 19th-century recovered ahead of auction; Justice Department says items will be returned to communities
By AFP
Shoshana Greenberg, 74, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, poses for a picture holding a portrait of her parents Regina and Israel, at her home in Israeli city of Tel Aviv on July 18, 2021. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)
July 20, 2021, 3:40 pm
Ghosts of Poland’s past haunt Holocaust restitution spat
‘I feel like I lost a part of my body,’ survivor’s daughter says of planned legislation that would thwart claims for Jewish-owned property seized by Nazis
By Dario Thuburn
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki speaks with the media at the end of an EU summit in Brussels, on December 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
June 27, 2021, 12:15 am
‘Poland will not pay’: Polish PM hits back at Lapid criticism of restitution law
Mateusz Morawiecki digs in heels after Israeli FM attacks law that would set a 30-year deadline for Jews to recover seized property, barring all Holocaust claims
By ToI Staff
Poland's lawmakers during voting – some in parliament, some remotely – in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
June 25, 2021, 9:12 am
Israel slams new Polish Holocaust law as ‘immoral’ and ‘a disgrace’
The legislation, which must still be approved by Poland’s senate, sets a 30-year deadline for Jews to recover seized property
By Amy Spiro
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