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The central panel of the Ghent Altarpiece rescued from a cache of Nazi-looted art in Altaussee, Austria in July 1945. Source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

We need a global campaign to locate Nazi-looted art

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Museums are often viewed as repositories of culture and history, showcasing the beauty and creativity of humanity. However, behind many works of art hanging on museum walls lies a dark history of theft, violence...
A memorial at Babi Yar in Ukraine, the site of a September 1941 massacre carried out by German forces and Ukrainian collaborators during their campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II. Credit: Meunierd/Shutterstock.

The dark legacy of Babi Yar

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The English word “holocaust” is borrowed from the Latin word holocaustum, used in the Latin translation of the Bible. This word is based in turn on a Greek word that means “burned whole” or “burnt...
Anthony Rota resigns as speaker of Canada’s House of Commons on Sept. 26, 2023. Source: YouTube/CP24.

Canadian official resigns, Poland seeks extradition of Nazi veteran honored by Ottawa

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Anthony Rota, the speaker of Canada’s House of Commons who apologized on Sunday for honoring a Ukrainian man who fought in a Nazi unit, has resigned, the Associated Press reported. "Just after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered...
Dutch Jews at the Mauthausen concentration camp, June 26, 1941. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Jewish resistance hero identified 80 years after execution by Nazis

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Dutch forensic investigators have identified the remains of a man executed by the Nazis in the Netherlands eight decades ago as that of a Jewish resistance hero after locating a cousin in Australia, investigators...
A satellite view of Alderney, the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands. Credit: Copernicus Sentinel-2, ESA via Wikimedia Commons.

UK government reviewing number of deaths at Nazi camps on British soil

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The British government announced a landmark review last week into Nazi camp deaths on the island of Alderney, which the Germans occupied between 1940 and 1945. Officially, 389 marked graves have been found, but some estimates...
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini (left) meets with Adolf Hitler in 1941. Credit: German Federal Archives.

Nazism and the Palestinians

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In 1921, Herbert Samuel, the British high commissioner of Mandatory Palestine, appointed Haj Amin al-Husseini grand mufti of Jerusalem. It would prove to be a mistake. Husseini would spend his career fomenting violence against...
Isar River north of Munich, Germany. Credit: Florian Schütz via Wikimedia Commons.

Discovered: Ruins of Munich synagogue destroyed by the Nazis

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Construction workers have uncovered stones in the Isar River from a Jewish temple obliterated in Germany just before World War II. In June of 1938, Munich’s main synagogue was demolished following an order from Adolf Hitler. The...
Wassily Kandinsky, “Colorful Life,” 1907. Credit: WikiArt/Public Domain.

Kandinsky’s ‘Colorful Life’ painting to return to Jewish heirs

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Wassily Kandinsky’s 1907 semi-abstract painting “Colorful Life,” which depicts a large outdoor celebration, should return to heirs of the Dutch Jewish collector who owned the work prior to the Holocaust, a German government panel...
President of Tunisia Kais Saied. Credit: Houcemmzoughi via Wikimedia Commons.

Days after two Jews shot dead, Tunisian president compares Israel to Nazis

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Two Jewish cousins were among those murdered on May 9 near a Tunisian synagogue. Four days later, Tunisian President Kais Saied compared the Jewish state to Nazi Germany. “While Tunisians protected Jews during the Holocaust, today elderly,...
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...