Poland Using Book to Push Looted Art Claim
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Polish officials say that legal documents compiled in a new book bolster their ownership claim of drawings by Renaissance master Albrecht Durer that were looted by the Nazis during World War II.
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LOS ANGELES: US authorities have seized a long-lost Picasso worth about $US10million ($13.4million) that was looted by Nazis during World War II.
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The Jewish Claims Conference joined with Polish restitution organizations Wednesday to appeal for the return of private property seized in the country during World War II and under Communist rule.Comment
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A book released Monday has dredged up more painful allegations from Poland's Communist era, naming some 30 Roman Catholic priests, including several bishops, as registered informants with the secret police.
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has turned to the courts to validate its claim to a 1913 Oskar Kokoschka painting sought by Claudia Seger-Thomschitz, an Austrian woman who says it was sold under duress during the Nazi occupation of Austria, The Boston Globe reported. Lawyers for Ms. Seger-Thomschitz contend that there is no doubt that the Kokoschka painting, âTwo Nudes (Lovers),â was sold under duress by Oskar Reichel, a physician who ran an art gallery in Vienna. The Museum of Fine Arts, citing months of research, maintained that the sale in 1939 was voluntary and to another Jew, the Viennese art dealer Otto Kallir. âThe painting was never confiscated by the Nazis, was never sold by force as a result of Nazi persecution and was not otherwise taken from Dr. Reichel,â the museumâs complaint states. Ms. Seger-Thomschitzâs lawyers said they would respond to the suit.
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Two more countries have endorsed opening a Nazi war archive to Holocaust museums, bringing the documents locked away for more than half a century a step closer to release, Red Cross officials said Tuesday.
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BERLIN Sept. 21, 2004 - The billionaire heir of a Nazi-era arms supplier has put his massive art collection on show amid accusations that he is trying to rehabilitate the family name and downplay the use of slave labor by his grandfather&#39;s company.
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Polish historians have recovered a Royal Air Force Halifax bomber from the Second World War and the remains of its Canadian and British crew, a find yielding treasures for a Warsaw museum that could also ...Comment
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The two worn leather-bound volumes that catalog art looted by the Nazis in France join similar albums at the National Archives.
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A Norway museum published a photograph on   Tuesday of Edvard Munch's masterpieces "The Scream" and   "Madonna," showing only slight damage after police recovered   them last month, two years after they were stolen.
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Ivory statues, Buddhist carvings, gold coins and thousands of other precious objects from the Kabul Museum feared stolen or destroyed under Soviet occupation and Taliban rule have been found, an American archaeologist said.
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The project involves scanning books and other works from the Civil War and other eras that have until now been thought too brittle for handling.
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Â· State catalogues atrocities during dictatorship  Â· Victims' relatives join president at book launch
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A case before the European Court of Human Rights is being seen as a landmark that could force Poland to compensate Holocaust survivors and their descendants for their material losses.
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Border items made redundant by Poland's Thursday midnight entry into Schengen free-travel zone are to be auctioned to help refugees, according to the Internet site of Poland's liberal Gazeta Wyborcza daily.
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Experts at the Anna Amalia Library in Weimar, Germany, are racing to restore the thousands books damaged in a fire in September.
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LOS ANGELES The federal government has claimed custody of a Pablo Picasso painting stolen by Nazis during World War Two. The move allows a federal court in Los Angeles to claim jurisdiction in a legal struggle