Restitution

For every looted Schiele, there are countless looted Jewish artifacts

What other paintings, books and kiddush cups that tell the story of a family lie today behind closed doors and in private homes? 

File photo of a U.S. soldier viewing art stolen by the Nazi regime and stored in church at Ellingen, Germany
People enter the State Department Building in Washington, U.S., January 26, 2017.

Top US Holocaust officials: Oct. 7 massacre creates ‘new momentum’ for restitution

 ‘PORTRAIT OF Adele Bloch-Bauer I,’ also called ‘The Lady in Gold,’ by Gustav Klimt, 1907.

Editor's Notes: The race to reclaim Nazi-looted art

File photo of a U.S. soldier viewing art stolen by the Nazi regime and stored in church at Ellingen, Germany

German museum curator returns looted art to Holocaust victim descendants


End the silence on the Hungarian Holocaust - opinion

A class action filed against Hungary in the federal court in Washington is demanding restitution for Hungary's Holocaust survivors. It's time for Israel to act on their behalf.

 Israeli flag is seen attached to "Shoes on the Danube Bank" memorial during the annual "March of the Living" to commemorate victims of the Holocaust

Warsaw sacks envoy who lambasted law against blaming Poles for Holocaust

The Polish Foreign Ministry fired its envoy to Jewish communities, Jarosław Marek Nowak, after he described a law against holding the country responsible for its role in the Holocaust as 'stupid.'

Holocaust survivors protest Poland's Holocaust law outside the Polish embassy in Tel Aviv, February 8, 2018

Israel returns diplomat after positive steps by Poland

Israeli Charge d’Affaires Tal Ben-Ari was recalled in August, after Poland passed a law that would make it nearly impossible for Holocaust survivors and others to claim restitution.

 Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks during a news briefing in Kyiv, Ukraine October 12, 2020.

Luxembourg to pay one million Euros in reparations for Holocaust survivors

Each eligible recipient will be granted an initial EUR 5,000 payment by the end of November and a second payment in March 2022.

Gideon Taylor, Chair of Operations, World Jewish Restitution Organization

Italian police recover Nazi-looted drawings offered online

Italian police recovered two drawings stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish lawyer that were being offered online.

A Nazi armband with a swastika displayed in the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany

Only talking will bring understanding in the Israel-Poland rift - opinion

Jews are right to want their Polish property back, but they need to understand that Poland as a nation did not collaborate with Nazis.

 A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR holds a Torah as he arrives at the entrance to Auschwitz for the annual March of the Living marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in May.

The Israeli-Polish rift can only be repaired by talking - opinion

Israel and Poland recalled their ambassadors after Poland passed a law saying that descendants of Polish Holocaust victims will not have their property returned.

 THEN-PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki at a Middle East summit in Warsaw in 2019.

Reparations: Germany’s debt and duty, Israel’s challenge - opinion

The indebted sum represents then-East Germany’s share in the historic 1952 Reparations Agreement, which has not been paid to date.

Former Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite stands under pictures of Jews killed in the Holocaust during a visit to Yad Vashem’s Hall of Names in 2015

New Zealand, Cyprus to also boycott Durban IV conference

The declaration passed by countries participating in the 2001 conference in Durban only mentions one country by name as a perpetrator of racism: Israel.

ARGUMENTS FLARE outside the 2001 World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, infamous for equating Zionism with racism.

Fighting antisemitism should not be Israel's primary concern - opinion

Fighting with Poland over Holocaust restitution is not in Israel’s national interest.

The Polish parliament, the Sejm.