Tag: Holocaust Restitution
Frankfurt returns painting to heirs of Jewish collector murdered in the Holocaust
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...
Latvia’s parliament passes $45 million Holocaust-restitution bill
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...
House introduces bipartisan bill to award Nuremberg trials prosecutor with Congressional Gold Medal
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...
Luxembourg to distribute $1.1 million in restitution to Holocaust survivors
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...
‘There is more to Polish restitution law than Lapid portrays’
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...
Will the Polish anti-restitution law permanently harm ties with Israel and Jewish community?
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...
Anti-restitution law ignites diplomatic crisis between Israel and Poland
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...
Lapid decries passage of Poland’s ‘anti-Semitic’ restitution law, recalls charge d’affaires from Warsaw
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...
Blinken: US ‘deeply concerned’ by Polish bill blocking Holocaust victims from reclaiming property
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...
After latest legislation on stolen Jewish property, it’s time to cut ties with Poland’s...
Poland is awash in anti-Semitism, and it is the government in Warsaw that is setting the hateful tone amid the worst breakdown in Polish-Jewish relations since the fall of Communism more than 30 years...