Descendants of a Jewish Parisian art collector are welcoming the return to their family of a rediscovered masterpiece.
PARIS — France has restored to its rightful owners a drawing by Edgar Degas that was stolen by the Nazis from its Jewish owner in 1940.
A controversial Nazi-themed cafe in Indonesia would be reopened with a broader World War II theme—without the swastika symbols but retaining images of Adolf Hitler, the owner's lawyer said Tuesday.
The Uffizi Gallery in Florence on Tuesday appealed to Berlin for help in retrieving a stolen 18th-century Dutch painting from a German family.
The University of Oklahoma for more than a decade has exhibited a piece of Nazi-looted artwork bequeathed to it by the wife of an oil tycoon. But renewed claims by a family that owned the oil painting before World War II has drawn the US school into a fight it thought was settled in Switzerland more than 60 years ago.
A probe has been launched after a theater in Germany promised free entry to spectators who wear a swastika to a play named after Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
The U.S. government has returned a painting stolen by the Nazis during World War II to the heirs of a renowned Jewish art collector.
The German government says it favors releasing information on artworks seized from a Munich apartment that may have been taken decades earlier from people persecuted by the Nazis.
The president of the World Jewish Organization says Germany must make a stronger effort to identify and return thousands of looted art pieces the Nazis took from Jews.
They survived the Europe of the Holocaust. But a recent rise in anti-Semitic acts in the United States has rekindled old fears among Jews.
