Restitution
Düsseldorf’s Mayor Accused of Canceling Max Stern Show Over Fears Of Restitution
Düsseldorf’s mayor referenced “current demands for information and restitution in German museums in connection with the Galerie Max Stern.”
German City Cancels Art Exhibit Over Holocaust Restitution Demands
“There are very influential people in Germany who don’t want to see art returned to Jews.”
It’s Chabad vs. Lithuanian Jews in Fight Over Holocaust Funds
Holocaust restitution money is supposed to heal wounds. But the Lithuanian government’s payment of $40 million to the country’s small Jewish community has reopened a decades-long dispute between Lithuania’s Jewish leadership and a Chabad rabbi from Boston.
Hanover Museum To Return Watercolor to Holocaust Victim’s Heirs
Hanover’s Sprengel Museum will return the German Expressionist painting to the heirs of its former owner, Max Rüdenberg.
Looted Nazi Artwork Headed to Swiss Museum - Until Rightful Owners Can Be Found
Cornelius Gurlitt possessed one of the most enormous secret collections of art ever uncovered. After a long legal battle, the work might soon be displayed.
Descendants Of Jewish WWII Refugees Reunited With Long-Lost Painting
The painting is one of 2,000 that France declared “orphaned” after World War II.
Cornelius Gurlitt’s Looted Art Hoard Poised for First Reveal
Cornelius Gurlitt’s art hoard, collected by his father in collaboration with the Nazis, has made headlines since its discovery in 2012. Now, for the first time, some of the collection will be made viewable for the public.
Holocaust Survivors Go Hungry as Israel Court Battle Locks Up Cash
Rachela Segal and her husband, Strul Segal, elderly Holocaust survivors living outside Tel Aviv, haven’t eaten chicken or fruit for weeks. At the market, they now even find it hard to afford to buy vegetables. “So I buy less, and Grade B. I go to buy vegetables, and 100 shekels flies,” Rachela Segal said.
All That’s ‘Gold’ Does Not Always Glitter
‘Woman in Gold’ uses every single cliché about Vienna, the Nazis and intergenerational friendship. But Anna Goldenberg writes it will leave at least you craving Sacher torte.
Egon Schiele, My Father and Me
Years after her father’s death, Carol Bergman discovered that he might not have been quite the art collector she thought. Did he buy a painting confiscated by the Nazis?
