Supreme Court orders reconsideration in case of Nazi-looted painting held by Spanish museum “There has never been a dispute that the Cassirer family was the rightful owner,” insist lawyers for the family, whose matriarch surrendered the painting to escape Nazi Germany. Mike Wagenheim March 31, 2025
Rediscovered Monet artwork stolen by Nazis is returned to Jewish family Helen Lowe and Francoise Parlagi received “Bord de Mer,” a 7x11-inch pastel by Claude Monet dated approximately 1865. Oct. 10, 2024
Amsterdam exhibit focuses on neglected aspect of the Holocaust: looted Judaica “The organized, systematic theft of property was one component of the process of the dehumanization of Jews during the Second World War,” according to the exhibition catalog. Menachem Wecker Sept. 3, 2024
Nazi-stolen art returned to heirs in New York City ceremony “The recovery of this important artwork—stolen from a prominent Jewish critic of Adolf Hitler—sends a message to the world that crime does not pay,” said descendant Timothy Reif. July 26, 2024
Sotheby’s auctions ‘Head Study of a Young Woman’ following painting’s return to Jewish heirs The 17th-century work sold for $460,800. July 5, 2024
Art from prominent Swiss collection likely plundered from Jews Majority of countries have made no progress on Holocaust art restitution over the last quarter century. Etgar Lefkovits July 5, 2024
Most countries refuse to budge on Shoah art restitution More than 100,000 items have not been returned to their rightful owners. Etgar Lefkovits March 6, 2024
Blinken announces program to return Nazi-looted art to descendants The U.S. Secretary of State described the Holocaust as not only a genocide but “one of the largest mass thefts in history.” March 5, 2024
‘At best,’ Chicago museum showed ‘willful blindness’ buying Nazi-looted art The Manhattan district attorney’s office accuses the Art Institute of Chicago of insufficient provenance research when it bought Egon Schiele’s “Russian War Prisoner.” Menachem Wecker March 1, 2024
