Holocaust artifacts

New resolution allows Holocaust survivors to more easily reclaim Nazi-looted art in Germany

One of the first restitution claims for Nazi-looted art in Germany was made in 2017 by the heirs of Kurt Grawi, a Jewish man who had been persecuted by the Nazis.

 NAZI LEADER Adolf Hitler inspects troops at Prague Castle in 1939.
AVRAHAM EILAT'S ‘Run’ short film references the forest as a place of tragedy but also resistance and survival.

History artfully revisited at the Mamuta Art and Research Center

 Visitors tour an exhibition ahead of Israel's national Holocaust memorial day, at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem

Britain's new government commits to building Holocaust memorial

 Residents of Paks, Hungary reflect on the community's lack of action during Jewish deportation in WWII.

80 years since deportation of Hungarian Jews: 'We stood by and didn't do enough'


Auschwitz display of 3,000 murdered children's shoes returns after undergoing preservation process

The shoes underwent a preservation process that took over a year of work at the Auschwitz Museum Conservation Laboratories.

 Staff examining shoes at Auschwitz-Birkenau Holocaust memorial

California lawmaker introduces bill helping Holocaust survivors reclaim stolen property

The law would require courts to apply local California law, rather than foreign law, in cases involving art stolen during the Holocaust, even if the art is held abroad.

 A visitor leans to look at Camille Pissarro's "Rue Saint-Honore in the Afternoon. Effect of Rain, 1897" at Thyssen-Bornemisza museum in Madrid, Spain, April 22, 2022.

National Library, Shoah Foundation preserve Holocaust, October 7 records

This will make Holocaust educational materials more accessible to those with Israeli IP addresses.

 Shoah Foundation Executive Director Chair Dr. Robert Williams and NLI chairman Sallai Meridor

Holocaust property restoration: Not enough progress made, report finds

Blinken's address noted the countless works of art and cultural property stolen by Nazis which still have not been returned to their owners. 

Tourists stand near a disputed Wassily Kandinsky painting at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, July 10, 2019.

7 Egon Schiele portraits to be returned to heirs of Jewish cabaret star murdered in the Holocaust

In 1938, Grünbaum and his wife were arrested by the Nazis and forced to sign a document giving her power of attorney; forcing them to sign a paper claiming they voluntarily turned over the art.

Portrait of Arthur Roessler (1914) by Egon Schiele. Original male line art drawing from The MET museum. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.

UK to launch investigation into two concentration camps on British soil

To date, there has never been a formal investigation into the number of deaths that occurred on Alderney during the Holocaust.

A red flower is seen on a wall during a commemoration of the liberation of the former concentration camp KZ Mauthausen, at the memorial site in Mauthausen, Austria, May 7, 2023.

Landmark exhibits shed light on life in German displaced person camps after the Holocaust

Life in the DP camps is the subject of a collaborative exhibition between Munich’s Jewish Museum and its City Museum, situated across the square from each other in the city’s center.

 People pay tribute during a wreath-laying ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre, in Jerusalem, April 18, 2023.

Russian media releases declassified documents on the Holocaust – report

Russia has released new documents claiming that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were highly involved in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust.

 Members of Latvian Auxiliary Police assemble a group of Jews, Liepāja, July, 1941.

What should Jews think of Poland?

MIDDLE ISRAEL: The fact that it wasn’t Nazism’s accomplice doesn't mean it wasn't plagued by antisemitism.

 A MAN carries an Israeli flag during the annual March of the Living through the grounds of the former Auschwitz death camp last year.

UK hosts first international forum of envoys for post-Holocaust property restitution

More than 20 envoys from over 10 countries discussed how to obtain justice for Holocaust survivors, whose property was seized during the Shoah.

 Holocaust envoys with UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly.

Holocaust artifacts can be ambassadors of remembrance - opinion

It is incumbent on us to ensure that this commitment to remembering the Holocaust victims as individuals, with their personal attributes, aspirations, hopes and dreams.

 Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan.