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Tag: Looted Art

0 Holocaust Politics

Still Covering Their Tracks

Nicole Wizman in Tablet · 22 Oct

The French national railway company SNCF has long attempted to obscure its role in the Holocaust, during which it transported over 76,000 Jews to Nazi concentration camps.

0 Holocaust Art

Ohio auction house halts sale of paintings looted during the Holocaust and billed as ‘unclaimed property’

Grace Gilson in JTA · 15 Sep

Two 17th-century paintings by Dutch artist Ambrosius Bosschaert, looted from German Jew Adolphe Schloss's collection during World War II, were removed from an Ohio auction after intervention by the Monuments Men and Women Foundation.

0 History Holocaust

In Germany, a Jewish family is reunited with a treasured family object — but also a sense of exile

Gabrielle Rossmer Gropman in Forward · 25 Apr

In recent years, efforts have been made to return looted Jewish silver objects, such as kiddush cups, to their rightful heirs.

0 Holocaust Art

Family recovers Monet pastel generations after Nazi looting

Asaf Elia-Shalev in JTA · 10 Oct 2024

The grandchildren of Adalbert and Hilda Parlagi have successfully reclaimed a looted Monet pastel, originally part of their family's art collection left behind in Vienna during their escape from the Nazis in 1938.

0 Holocaust Art

For every looted Schiele, there are countless looted Jewish artifacts. They need to be returned to their rightful owners, too.

Gideon Taylor in JTA · 12 Mar 2024

The article discusses the need to return looted Jewish artifacts to their rightful owners, focusing on a specific case of a book from the Romanian Jewish community that surfaced in a New York auction.

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The Met will start policing its collections for looted art. Holocaust restitution paved the way

Mira Fox in Forward · 1 Jun 2023

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is taking steps to police its collection for stolen and looted art and artifacts.

0 Art Holocaust

Nazis stole thousands of pieces of art — but that was only the beginning of the story

Forward · 20 Aug 2021

The Jewish Museum's exhibit, "Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art," unveils the complex journey of cultural artifacts seized by the Nazis during WWII.