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  2. Nazi plunder - Wikipedia

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    Jean Metzinger, 1913, En Canot (Im Boot), oil on canvas, 146 cm × 114 cm (57 in × 45 in), exhibited at Moderni Umeni, S.V.U. Mánes, Prague, 1914, acquired in 1916 by Georg Muche at the Galerie Der Sturm, confiscated by the Nazis c. 1936, displayed at the Degenerate Art show in Munich, and missing ever since Albert Gleizes, 1912, Landschaft bei Paris, Paysage près de Paris, Paysage de ...

  3. The Holocaust in the arts and popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Eugene Hollander was a Hungarian who wrote From the Hell of the Holocaust: A Survivor's Story. Sidney Iwens wrote How Dark the Heavens. Marie Jalowicz Simon wrote Gone to Ground: One Woman's Extraordinary Account of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany. [17] Hermann Kahan wrote The Fire and the Light. Trudy Kanter wrote Some Girls, Some Hats ...

  4. Art in Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

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    Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-4607-4; Thoms, Robert: The Artists in the Great German Art Exhibition Munich 1937–1944, Volume I – painting and printing. Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-937294-01-8.

  5. Lampshades made from human skin - Wikipedia

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    Some human remains at Buchenwald, [1] including a lampshade made of human skin. [2]There are two notable reported instances of lampshades made from human skin.After World War II it was claimed that Nazis had made at least one lampshade from murdered concentration camp inmates: a human skin lampshade was displayed by Buchenwald concentration camp commandant Karl-Otto Koch and his wife Ilse Koch ...

  6. Art theft and looting during World War II - Wikipedia

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    In the book Art as Politics in the Third Reich, author Jonathan Petropoulos outlines how there is a need for further cooperation by smaller art galleries to recover art that they may be holding without knowing its ownership. He says that there are still many tens of thousands of pieces of art missing today, but that a more accurate number will ...

  7. Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry bring humor to Holocaust survivor ...

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    Fry told Yahoo Entertainment that he knows it is every actor’s dream to be in a “blockbuster or marvelous Hollywood tentpole feature,” but bringing von Heinz’s art to life was a ...

  8. Holocaust museum exhibit featuring 11 million stamps unveiled ...

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    The exhibit & Wednesday’s dedication. The centerpiece, of course, is the display holding the 11 million stamps. It’s a somber sight — a display a foot-and-a-half deep and 12 feet wide, with ...

  9. Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art - Wikipedia

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    In March 2024, new guidelines were announced to clarify points notably about the meaning of "just and fair" and the inclusion of duress sales in "Nazi-looted" art: [8] "Just and fair" means just and fair solutions first and foremost for the victims of the Holocaust (Shoah) and other victims of Nazi persecution and for their heirs. [9]