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The Nazis tried to stamp out modern art. You can see some of it at the Kimbell
The survey of modern German painting and sculpture now at the Kimbell Art Museum has its tone set by the documentation of the ...
'Six Triple Eight:' The all-Black female WWII unit awarded the Congressional Gold Medal
The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the only one comprised of Black women to be sent overseas during World War ...
Secret note found inside violin built in concentration camp: "Made under difficult conditions"
A Jewish prisoner at the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau secretly penned a short note and hid it inside a violin he had ...
Japanese incarceration interrupted these artists’ careers, but not their art
Works by Hisako Hibi, Miné Okubo and Miki Hayakawa are featured in “Pictures of Belonging” at the Smithsonian American Art ...
Is it possible to make great art under fascism?
In his biting, timely new historical novel, "The Director," Daniel Kehlmann investigates complicity through the true story of ...
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Art Institute ordered to return drawing to heirs of Jewish cabaret star killed by Nazis
The Art Institute of ... that the “Russian War Prisoner” watercolor had been stolen by Nazis from Jewish cabaret star Fritz Grünbaum before the start of World War II. Grünbaum was later ...
Students create literary, art works for Holocaust Remembrance Service
Every year since 1984, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church holds their annual NWLA Holocaust Remembrance Service to honor the those ...