![]() He also wants to bring awareness that the HEAR Act “makes it possible for descendants to go to court to recover art and property lost to the Nazis during the World War II period.” Many people do not realize that this is the largest displacement of art in human history.” “A million pieces of art were confiscated from the Jewish people and about a third of it - 300,000 missing pieces - have still not been returned to the rightful owners and their descendants. “The ‘A’ is for Awareness of the scope and continuing nature of the problem,” Schwartz said. Schwartz, who has an entertainment practice and more than a decade of experience in art law, explained the local Holocaust Art Recovery Initiative through the acronym “ART.” With major art recovery cases currently being litigated in New York and California, Schwartz said he wants to achieve success stories like Altmann’s for survivor families living in Metro Detroit. National Archives and Records/Public Domain Eisenhower, right, inspects stolen artwork in a salt mine in Merkers, accompanied by Gen. law,” said Schwartz, JBAM president and the immediate former chairperson of ACES. Denying the return of identified Jewish artwork stolen during the Holocaust is outrageous, and we cannot be silent when the clock is ticking for recovery under U.S. “This artwork, some of it by famous Jewish artists, is part of our Jewish identity, as much as Jewish humor, literature and food. British actress Helen Mirren portrayed real-life Holocaust survivor Maria Altmann, who sets in motion a long legal challenge to recover her family’s cherished Gustav Klimt painting, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I - also known as The Woman in Gold - from the Austrian government. The difficulty was dramatized in the popular 2015 film, Woman in Gold. “Denying the return of identified Jewish artwork stolen during the Holocaust is outrageous we cannot be silent when the clock is ticking for recovery under U.S. “For too long, governments, museums, auction houses and unscrupulous collectors allowed this egregious theft of culture and heritage to continue, imposing legal barriers like arbitrary statutes of limitations to deny families prized possessions stolen from them by the Nazis,” Lauder said at the signing. He urged members to introduce the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act, a bipartisan bill President Barack Obama signed into law on Dec. ![]() Lauder, the cosmetics billionaire who chairs both the Commission for Art Recovery and Council of the World Jewish Restitution Organization, provided leadership to Congress on the restitution issue. State Department-hosted Washington Conference on Holocaust Era Assets established principles for dealing with restitution claims. ![]() Restitution of Jewish-owned art has been on the radar of the U.S. government since efforts began in 1945 to help recover the then-estimated 650,000 works of art stolen by the Nazis. ![]() Under the new law, the time period for making such legal claims begins when a family discovers the artwork’s loss, not when the theft actually took place in Europe. 1, 2027 - for Holocaust victims and/or their descendants to file for the return of valuable artwork stolen from their families during the Nazi era (1933-1945). It’s a response to passage of a federal law that allows more time - until Jan. in Southfield, recently launched the Holocaust Art Recovery Initiative, a partnership with the Arts, Communications, Entertainment and Sports (ACES) Section of the State Bar of Michigan. JBAM, co-founded in 2014 by Schwartz, a partner at Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss P.C. Schwartz is leading a local effort by the Jewish Bar Association (JBAM) to right a historic wrong that’s existed for more than 70 years as, he says, “part of the Nazis’ attempt to wipe out our Jewish identity.” Group of lawyers helps survivors and their heirs recover artwork stolen by the Nazis.īy Esther Allweiss Ingber, Contributing Writer Jonathan Schwartz Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, also known as The Woman in Gold that was recovered. ![]()
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