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In Holocaust restitution agreement, Pennsylvania museum will auction Renaissance painting

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A balding man with a long white beard and large mustache sits with his hands clasped and the bejeweled Order of the Golden Fleece insignia—a sheep associated with Jason and Argonauts—around his neck. The c....
Detail of "Portrait of a Lady (Portrait of Therese Karl)" (1890) by Fritz von Uhde. Credit: Städel museum, Frankfurt.

Frankfurt returns painting to heirs of Jewish collector murdered in the Holocaust

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Fritz von Uhde’s painting “Portray of a Lady” will be restituted to the heirs of Jewish collector Gustav Rüdenberg, according to an agreement with the Städel museum in Frankfurt, Germany, which the New York...
Building of Latvian Saeima Republican in Riga, Latvia. Credit: Konstantinks/Shutterstock.

Latvia’s parliament passes $45 million Holocaust-restitution bill

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Latvia’s parliament passed a bill that will provide compensation for unrecovered Jewish property and funding for the country’s Jewish community, reported The Associated Press. The Law on the Compensation of Goodwill to the Latvian Jewish Community...
Chief prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz presents documents as evidence at the Einsatzgruppen Trial. Credit: Uunited States Holocaust Memorial Museum/Courtesy of Benjamin Ferencz.

House introduces bipartisan bill to award Nuremberg trials prosecutor with Congressional Gold Medal

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A bipartisan group of the members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill on Thursday to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the last living prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials. The bill was introduced by...
A Jewish-owned shop in Luxembourg before the Holocaust. Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Luxembourg to distribute $1.1 million in restitution to Holocaust survivors

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The World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) announced that the Claims Conference has begun allocating $1.1 million to Holocaust survivors who are currently living in or were persecuted by German Nazis or their allies in...
The Lower House of the Polish parliament called Sejm. Credit: Spandow Stock Photo/Shutterstock.

‘There is more to Polish restitution law than Lapid portrays’

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The question on everyone’s mind in Poland in recent days was what prompted Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid to react in such a critical manner to their government’s decision to put a statute of...
Polish President Andrzej Duda. Credit: Grabowski Foto/Shutterstock.

Will the Polish anti-restitution law permanently harm ties with Israel and Jewish community?

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Despite international pressure to veto the bill, Polish President Andrzej Duda signed a bill passed by the Polish legislature on Aug. 14 that would prevent individuals with property seized by either the Nazis during...
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, seen here in the Knesset on July 26, 2021, blamed Poland for a recent deterioration in ties. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Anti-restitution law ignites diplomatic crisis between Israel and Poland

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Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki warned Israel on Sunday that its continued criticism of Poland’s recently passed anti-restitution law could harm ties between the two countries. “Israel’s decision to downgrade its diplomatic representation in Warsaw...
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid issues a video statement on Poland's passage of a law that severely limits restitution for property stolen by the Nazis during the Holocaust and confiscated by the post-WWII communist regime. Aug. 14, 2021. Source: Twitter.

Lapid decries passage of Poland’s ‘anti-Semitic’ restitution law, recalls charge d’affaires from Warsaw

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Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Saturday night accused Poland of having “become an anti-democratic, non-liberal country that does not honor the greatest tragedy in human history.” Lapid was responding to Polish President Andrzej Duda’s...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Aug. 11, 2021 that compensation for new restitution claims in Poland should not be closed off. Credit: Shutterstock.

Blinken: US ‘deeply concerned’ by Polish bill blocking Holocaust victims from reclaiming property

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that the United States is “deeply concerned” by legislation passed by the Polish parliament earlier in the day barring Holocaust survivors and their descendants from reclaiming property...