Vienna official says city has returned nearly 6,000 art, other objects looted by Nazis

(2013)
22.05.2013 (The Washington Post) -- VIENNA — An official for the city of Vienna says the Austrian capital has handed over nearly 6,000 valuable objects looted by the Nazis to their rightful owners or their heirs since it started taking inventory of them 14 years ago.
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The National Archives hosts committee on Nazi-era looted art records

(2013)
09.05.2013 (The National Archives) -- Members of the Nazi-era cultural property project met yesterday at The National Archives, Kew, to report on progress of the online international research portal for families, historians and researchers to access records on looted art from the Nazi era.
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Collector says Sotheby’s sold him Nazi-owned art—now it's unsellable

(2013)
02.05.2013 (The Art Newspaper, by Laura Gilbert) -- Uncertainty over whether the work, once owned by Goering, was looted means that auction houses don't want to put it on the block.
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N.Y. agency helps heirs recover art lost in Nazi era

(2013)
29.04.2013 (usatoday.com, written by Cara Matthews) -- Holocaust Claims Processing Office, the only government office of its kind, has opened 162 art claims for thousands of items.
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Ottawa Contributes to Research on Nazi-Looted Art

(2013)
28.04.2013 (Epoch Times) -- The federal government has announced funding of almost $200,000 to help Canadian museums contribute to a key international research effort on the restitution of Holocaust-era works of art stolen by the Nazis.
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Family, ‘Not Willing to Forget,’ Pursues Art It Lost to Nazis

(2013)
26.04.2013 (The New York Times, written by Patricia Cohen and Tom Mashberg) -- Lt. Alexandre Rosenberg of the Free French forces pounded on the boxcars. Hold your fire, he told his men. There might be prisoners inside the train they had stopped outside Paris in August 1944. Slowly, a few of the heavy doors slid open, and a handful of worn German soldiers straggled out.
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Herzog Heirs Say Closer to Recovering Nazi-Looted Art

(2013)
25.04.2013 (Bloomberg.com, written by Catherine Hickley) -- The heirs of a pre-World War II Jewish collector who are seeking to recover art worth more than $100 million said a U.S. court ruling and a Hungarian government announcement are steps toward success in their 70-year struggle.
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Artworks stolen during Holocaust returned to families by Montreal museum

(2013)
23.04.2013 (Global News, by Amanda Kelly) -- MONTREAL – Three paintings with remarkable histories linked to the Holocaust are being showcased at a Montreal museum.
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Matisse in Norwegian museum was once Nazi loot

(2013)
06.04.2013 (Foxnews) -- The family of a prominent Parisian art dealer is demanding that a Norwegian museum return an Henri Matisse painting seized by Nazis under the direction of Hermann Goering, in the latest dispute over art stolen from Jews during World War II.
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Bavaria refuses to return Picasso painting to classical composer's family

(2013)
30.03.2013 (New York Post, written by Isabel Vincent and Bruce Golding) -- The German state of Bavaria has struck a sour note with the family of celebrated classical composer Felix Mendelssohn by refusing to return a precious Picasso painting lost during the Nazis’ pre-Holocaust persecution of German Jews.
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