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MOMA's Problematic Provenances
In January 2010, the heirs of the German artist George Grosz lost a lawsuit against the Musuem of Modern Art. Their claim for three paintings was rejected on the grounds that the statue of limitations had run out before the suit was filed. But many observers experienced in the field of Holocaust-era art restitution believed that if the judge had considered the facts instead of ruling on a technicality, the verdict would have been different.
Tags: Art; George Grosz
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"Annie's Ghosts"
Steve Luxenberg had always believed his mother was an only child. Shortly before her death, however, it was revealed that she had a "disabled sister." Once Luxenberg started digging, a multitude of secrets were revealed, including his mother's attempts at hiding her sister's existence. His investigation acknowledges how his aunt and so many others came to live anonymously in mental hospitals for so long.
Tags: imperial Russia; Ukrainian Holocaust; psychiatric hospitals; Detroit; Philippine war
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The Swedish Crusade
The interview of Bishop Richard Williamson led to the most serious conflict between the Jewish and the Catholic communities. In the interview the Bishop denied the existence of the Holocaust, who was excommunicated from the Church. Though, after the Pope lifted this excommunication, criticism of the Pope and the Vatican began. The follow-up revealed that the "persons responsible within the Vatican could have avoided the upcoming crisis, but decided to neglect the information".
Tags: Society of St. Pius X(SSPX); Protestant Sweden; neo-Nazi; conservative; Cardinal; church; religion; Catholic
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Unraveling the Mystery of the "Dead City"
A painting by Egon Schiele titled "Dead City" belonged to Fritz Grunbaum and his wife before they died in the Holocaust. A quarter of a century later the struggle for recovering art raided by the Nazis still lasts as heirs try to reclaim the work.
Tags: Austria; WWII; Leopold Museum; Eberhard Kornfeld; Otto Kallir; Vienna; seizure;
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Holocaust Papers
The series examines the Nazi records and postwar documents kept under seal by the Read Cross for more than 60 years.
Tags: holocaust; Nazi; concentration camp; SS; World War II; Red Cross; Dachau
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Terror Television: How Taxpayer-financed Al-urra became a platform for terrorists and Holocaust deniers
"Shortly after the hiring of news director Larry Register in November 2006, US Taxpayer-financed Arab TV network Al-Hurra dropped its policy of not broadcasting terrorists live and unchallenged. As a result, Hamas operatives became regular live guests, and among other examples, the network provided uncritical, straightforward coverage of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Holocaust conference in December 2006."
Tags: freedom of speech; terrorism; broadcast television; federal government
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Prisoner of her Past
Howard Reich of the Chicago Tribune looks into his elderly mother's disease, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. While many doctors couldn't put a label on the disease until the 1980's, PTSD has become a major topic of discussion among Holocaust survivors.
Tags: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; elderly; Holocaust victims
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Austria: Justice Delayed
This story looks at how art work stolen from Jews during the Holocaust are still hanging in Austrian museums. The museums working certain loopholes in the Austrian law system are not being forced to return these works to their rightful owners.
Tags: art; art museum; art restoration; art restitution laws; Austrian art; Holocaust
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One Horrific Day
CBS News 60 Minutes investigates the destruction and massacre of a Jewish community in Poland during WWII. More than one thousand Jews in the small town of Jedwabne died at the hands of their Polish neighbors.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Jan Gross; Jewabne; Poland; Jews; anti-Semitism; World War II; Holocaust; President Krasniewski
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The Master Swindler of Yugoslavia
ARTnews reports on artworks looted from Holocaust victims by the Nazis. Many of the pieces ended up in Yugoslavia, after a "Yugoslav art thief forger and probable spy Ante Topic Mimara ... tricked American art restitution officers into turning over 166 artworks to him in 1949 by falsely claiming that the Nazis had stolen them from Yugoslavia." The duped Americans later searched for the artworks, never found them and covered up the incident, the story reveals. ARTnews has located some the pieces in museums in Serbia and Croatia. The investigation includes photographs of the artworks.
Tags: Nazis; artworks; Soviet Union; National Gallery of Art; Milosevic regime; World War II; Belgrade; Zagreb; paintings