During World War II, untold numbers of artworks and pieces of cultural property were stolen by Nazi forces. After the war, an estimated one million artworks and 2.5 million books were recovered. Many more were destroyed. This exhibition chronicles the layered stories of the objects that survived, ex...

Michelangelo’s David, the colossal marble statue representing the biblical tale of David and Goliath, has become a modern institution. Its craftsmanship, attention to detail and idealized body have captivated audiences for hundreds of years, and it has become a symbol of Renaissance art and the clas

Newsreels 1945, April 26
Nazi Atrocities Against Mankind
At WWII German prison camps real life horror pictures reveal the unbelievable atrocities committed by the Nazis in their murder camps.

Marcel Marceau saved at least 70 Jewish children from the Nazis through risky border crossings during World War II, and his cousin Georges Loinger saved 350. Marcel Marceau saved at least 70 Jewish children from the Nazis through risky border crossings during World War II, and his cousin Georges Loi...

During Kristallnacht, Jews were terrorized across Germany with nearly 100 killed, and homes, synagogues and business destroyed. The world watched and did nothing, leading to the horrors of the Holocaust. We must learn from the past and not stay silent in the face of hate.

An art historian assigned to evaluate a trove of Nazi-looted art found in a Munich flat said was "very emotional" when she first saw the works dating from the 16th century to the modern period from artists such as Canaletto, Courbet, Picasso, Chagall and Toulouse-Lautrec. German customs officials di...

The Ritchie Boys were responsible for gathering more than half the actionable intelligence on the battlefield during World War II. For the many German-born Jews in their ranks, defeating the Nazis was heartbreakingly personal. Jon Wertheim reports.

Gustav Klimt
July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918
Gustav Klimt was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. His major works include paintings, mural, sketches, and other art objects. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works

Matisse was one of the most celebrated painters of the 20th century who, even in his own lifetime, enjoyed a level of popularity envied by other artists. But in 1941, after a near-fatal operation for cancer, he decided to give up painting and sought a new way of drawing in colour. Scissors replaced ...

The exhibition marks an historic moment, when treasures from around the world can be seen together. Tate’s The Snail 1953 is shown alongside its sister work Memory of Oceania 1953 and Large Composition with Masks 1953 at 10 metres long. A photograph of Matisse’s studio reveals that these works were