Holocaust

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Privacy rules are spelling trouble for the art market

More stringent regulations are posing provenance challenges and leading to legal battles

'Courageous and resilient individuals': why the Illinois Holocaust Museum is embracing virtual reality to share survivors’ stories

New technologies are helping to protect and preserve the vital eye-witness perspectives of a dwindling but determined community

‘The greatest theft in history’: a new exhibition in Amsterdam offers an unprecedented account of Nazi looting

The two-part show reveals like never before how theft was used as a means of erasing Jewish identity, writes Ambassador (ret) Stuart E. Eizenstat, the chair of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, and the curator Julie-Marthe Cohen

Another Schiele work returned to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum

The 1918 drawing had been in the possession of another Austrian Jewish family, which recently became suspicious of the work's provenance and contacted Grünbaum’s heirs directly in order to “do the right thing”

Unesco warns that AI could rewrite Holocaust history

What can museums and heritage institutions do about disinformation powered by artificial intelligence?

UK government commits to building national Holocaust memorial in London

Keir Starmer’s Labour administration is reintroducing a bill that will allow the monument and accompanying learning centre to be built, after the project was challenged in the courts

Fortnite’s Holocaust museum and how video games incorporate exhibition spaces

A virtual museum in the popular game counteracts players who deny or distort the history of antisemitism

The story of Maryan, the Polish Holocaust survivor who expressed his trauma through his art, is told in new show

Survey at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art is one of the first outside the US to examine the artist’s life and work

US court dismisses Nazi-era Guelph Treasure restitution claim

The heirs of Jewish dealers, who allegedly sold the medieval collection to the Prussian government under duress due to Nazi persecution, may appeal the ruling

Russian missile strike hits Holocaust memorial site in Kyiv

The site of Babyn Yar, Europe's largest mass grave for victims of the Holocaust, was struck by Russian missiles in an attack on a nearby television broadcasting tower

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Behold the man: forgotten film by artist who lived through Auschwitz will go on show in Tel Aviv

Pioneering film is part of the first major retrospective of Maryan, the Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor now newly celebrated in death

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Jewish icons or anti-Semitic memorabilia? The growing market for Nazi-era artefacts—and the Israeli collectors buying them

On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we spoke with Eyal Ilya, owner of Pentagon Auction House in Israel, about the trend for Second World War artefacts

Six decades after Adolf Eichmann trial, an artist’s graphic response is timely as ever

Argentinian-American artist Mauricio Lasansky’s ‘The Nazi Drawings’, created in response to testimony from the internationally broadcast trial, are on view at the Minneapolis Institute of Art

MOCA North Miami hosts huge retrospective for Auschwitz survivor forgotten by art history

Show includes never before seen works by the prolific painter Maryan whose career went far beyond the Nazi atrocities he witnessed

Berlin museum acquires vast collection of antisemitic objects amassed by German man who helped Jewish people hide from Nazis

Wolfgang Haney, who died in 2017, assembled 15,000 postcards, leaflets, photographs and more bearing witness to the persecution of Jewish people

Museums unite to fight near record levels of antisemitism

A recent symposium in New York looked at how institutions can come up with new and innovative strategies for countering misinformation

Germany proposes law change to ease Nazi-loot returns from private foundations

Law change follows refusal by some foundations to restitute property lost due to Nazi persecution

US Supreme Court sides with Germany in Guelph Treasure case

In a unanimous opinion, it found the country cannot be sued for taking property from its own citizens, making it harder for the heirs of some Holocaust victims to recover art through the US justice system

Babyn Yar: site where 100,000 victims were shot by Nazis to get one of world’s largest Holocaust memorial centres

“We do not want to create a big building that sits heavily” on this sensitive ground, says Robert Jan Van Pelt, one of the minds behind the project in Ukraine

Germany's Holocaust memorial sites fight against surge in far-right threats

Former concentration camps are being increasingly drawn into culture wars by “normal-looking” people challenging guides and disrupting tours

US Supreme Court agrees to hear Berlin museums' appeal in lawsuit over restitution of medieval treasures to Jewish heirs

Panel will consider museums' argument that a trial over rightful ownership of the Guelph Treasure cannot be heard in American courts

US government recommends that the Supreme Court hear German museums’ appeal on Guelph Treasure claim

The solicitor general’s recent filing suggests the Nazis’ looting of Jewish collections in Germany was a domestic rather than international crime

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The US Supreme Court’s silence on Nazi art theft fails Holocaust survivors

Last week’s decision to reject an appeal over the ownership of Picasso’s The Actor was a missed opportunity to clarify the limitations of the 2016 HEAR Act

Art activists anger Holocaust survivors with Berlin monument containing ashes

Centre for Political Beauty says action targets conservatives open to allying with far right

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Holocaust-era art restitution: more complex than you think

A rush to judgement has resulted in notable errors, with some "Nazi-looted" art having been purchased legally

A monument to the Holocaust in textile: Anni Albers’s Six Prayers

On this week’s podcast, we hear about the solemn memorial at the heart of Tate Modern’s survey of the Bauhaus artist

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Legal battle over Met's famous Picasso reignited by estate

The museum stands by its ownership of The Actor, which it says was never in the hands of Nazis

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Claim on Guelph Treasure can go to trial in US federal court

Lawyers for the Prussian Cultural Foundation argued that it was not “genocide” when the objects were sold in 1935

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New York judge orders two Schiele works sent to Christie’s, where they could be auctioned

But the watercolours are currently at the centre of a closely watched restitution lawsuit