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Thursday, October 15, 2020
United States Secures Return of Artwork 87 Years After Nazis Looted it From Jewish Family in BerlinStory continues below advertisementBy: Department of Justice, October 15, 2020:
Painting Had Been in Canajoharie Museum Since 1934
ALBANY, NEW YORK – A painting looted by the Nazis in 1933 from a Jewish family in Berlin, Germany, was returned to the family’s heirs, represented by the Mosse Foundation, on October 15, 2020, announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and Thomas F. Relford, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Rudolf Mosse was a prominent publisher and philanthropist in the early twentieth century in Berlin, Germany. He and his family published newspapers including the Berliner Tageblatt, which criticized the Nazi party. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, the Mosse family, who were Jewish, became subject to Aryanization measures, which sought to remove them from the German economy. When the Mosses fled Germany, the Nazis seized their assets, including an extensive art collection.
The Mosse art collection included a painting known as “Winter,” by American artist Gari Melchers (a photograph of the painting is attached). After the Nazis seized “Winter,” it went through a series of intermediaries, ultimately purchased by Bartlett Arkell, co-founder and president of Imperial Packing Company, which became Beech-Nut Packing Company. Bartlett Arkell’s art collection is now housed at the Arkell Museum in Canajoharie, New York. In September 2019, the FBI recovered “Winter” from the Arkell Museum on the basis that it is stolen property that travelled in interstate commerce. There is no evidence suggesting that Bartlett Arkell knew that “Winter” had been unlawfully taken and the Arkell Museum has relinquished all rights to the painting. “Winter” was returned to the Mosse Foundation, which operates internationally to recover works of art expropriated from the Mosse family by the Nazi regime, and represents the lawful heirs’ interest in “Winter.”
“We can never ease the horrors of Nazi Germany from history, but we can, and should, take every opportunity to deliver any justice we can including the return of property to rightful heirs,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon. “The Department of Justice will continue to do just that.”
FBI Special Agent in Charge Thomas F. Relford stated: “While it’s believed there were hundreds of thousands of pieces of art stolen by the Nazis, our office is immensely proud to help right even just one wrong done during this evil period of world history. We may have played a small role in a massive effort, but we will forever recognize the magnitude of this work and we’re truly honored to be able to return this painting to its rightful owners.”
The FBI transferred the painting to the heirs’ representatives at the FBI’s Field Office in Albany, with remarks from the United States Attorney’s Office, the FBI, the Mosse Foundation, and the Arkell Museum. A media outlet interested in a video recording of the event may contact FBI Public Affairs Specialist Sarah Ruane at [email protected].
Countless pieces of artwork stolen by the Nazi regime remain at large. Anyone with information regarding stolen artwork can reach the FBI’s art crime team at: [email protected].
This case was handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher R. Moran.
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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
Dreyfuss IS JEWISH. I do not think he has any idea how many people hate him JUST BECAUSE HE IS JEWISH and for nothing else. THEY ARE DEMOCRATS AND SO IS DREYFUSS.
3 years ago
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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
Dreyfuss IS JEWISH. I do not think he has any idea how many people hate him JUST BECAUSE HE IS JEWISH and for nothing else. THEY ARE DEMOCRATS AND SO IS DREYFUSS.
3 years ago
3 years ago
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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
I WILL FEEL A GREAT CALMING WHEN ALL MUSLIMS ARE DEPORTED FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
3 years ago
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TomSJr
They’ve had a lot of practice, any doubt they will do it again?
Islam’s Armenian Genocide Template for the Holocaust
http://jpfo.org/articles-assd/armenian-genocide.htm
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3 years ago
[email protected] Christopher R Moran, Antoinette Bacon, [email protected] Thomas F. Relford Thank you for returning NAZI stolen property to it’s rightful owners.
3 years ago
These crimes were massive. Jews across Europe were pillaged and massacred, their property stolen by Nazis and “loving” neighbors.
There is a great show The Hunt For Nazi Treasure which illustrates the systematic method by which the Nazis stole the treasure of Jews and others. Not everyone who had valuables stolen can “prove” ownership. Especially when they were not able to bring anything with them and were marched directly to the abattoir.
It is a crime that was never properly punished. These are the breadcrumbs being recovered.
Of course, it is the millions of lives murdered like vermin who were the most valuable of all. Entire families shot in pits they were forced to dig, starved to death in disease ridden inhuman concentration camps, worked to death as slaves in factories, and gassed in nightmarish ways.
I recommend everyone watch Son if Sam, a superlative Hungarian movie, that really gives you a glimpse of that Hell on earth the Germans created. I think it is the most honest depiction ever rendered to film. You will never forget it.
And we should never forget or allow, in any form, this wretched Jew hatred to exist anywhere.
3 years ago
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Fount
Just reword it as Democrast have. Michigan’s Governor Jennifer Granholm insisted there would be blood in the streets when the CPL law was presented. A police officer, who was one who pushed this law said Granholm believed only police and the military should have guns. Michiganders elected a Canadian as governor. Really.
The Democrats will be saying ““ARMS IN THE HANDS OF Americans ARE A DANGER TO PUBLIC SAFETY”
“ARMS IN THE HANDS OF JEWS ARE A DANGER TO PUBLIC SAFETY”: NAZISM, FIREARM REGISTRATION, AND THE NIGHT OF THE BROKEN GLASS
https://ae1.c83.myftpupload.com/law_review_articles/arms_in_the_hands_of_the_jews.pdf
Thank the voters of Connecticut!
“Gun Control’s” Nazi Connection
http://jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/GCA_68.htm
3 years ago
Democrats and Big Tech “cancel culture” very similar to removing Mosse family from the German economy in 1933.
3 years ago
At last something positive. Another wrong of the Holocaust righted.
3 years ago
A tiny drop in a huge bucket, but, it shows that, 75 years after the end of WW2, our federal government hasn`t stopped trying to right this huge, historic wrong.
3 years ago
Maybe we should look in George Soros’ vaults too…..
