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Comment | Time is running out for justice on Nazi-looted art—but it is not yet too late for museums to act

It is time for Congress to pass the new HEAR Act and for museums to deliver provenance transparency, writes Gideon Taylor, the president of the World Jewish Restitution Organization

Gideon Taylor
5 November 2025
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Four American soldiers, including Captain James Rorimer (centre left), stand on the steps of Germany's Neuschwanstein Castle in 1945. They were part of the the US army's Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section, which helped to recover stolen cultural property during the Second World War. Members of the section  became known as the Monuments Men. Rorimer, meanwhile, went on to serve as the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

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1 November 2000

The World Jewish Congress’s Commission for Art Recovery restitutes works from museums in Hanover and Leipzig

Does this mark a change of direction for initiative, which previously only recorded losses?

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