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Dec 31, 2025, 2:47 PM

How to Raise a Martyr: Palestinian Textbooks and “Occupied” UN Workers

Source: Reuters. IDF outside of UNRWA in Gaza.

Remember your childhood textbooks? The ones you scribbled doodles in. Do you recall if they taught facts, or fed you propaganda? My first textbook was titled “From Sea to Shining Sea,” and it sold me a false history—one that...

Oct 3, 2025, 8:32 AM

Why the UN Risks Global Chaos and Israel’s Right to Live

By Dr. Shmuel Legesse, reported by Jonathan Takele Israel does not celebrate the suffering of others. No Israeli parent wants Palestinian children to die, but every Israeli parent wants their own children to live. That is the human truth too...

Jonathan H. Schwartz

Aug 14, 2025, 11:09 PM

Confronting Hungary’s Holocaust-Era Cultural Theft

Why This Fight Is Personal My own Hungarian heritage, through my great-grandfather, has always given me a deep connection to that country’s history — and to its unfinished reckoning with the Holocaust. As a Jewish attorney who has worked in...

Jonathan H. Schwartz

Aug 14, 2025, 8:40 AM

Stolen Faces: The Fate of Holocaust-Era Photos

In the vast bureaucracy of the Holocaust’s cultural plunder, some items were taken purely for their market value — gold, silver, carpets, and even certain paintings earmarked for sale. Others were kept for the glory of the state, destined...

Jonathan H. Schwartz

Aug 13, 2025, 11:20 AM

From Archive to AI: Tracing Holocaust Looted Art

The Holocaust Art Recovery Initiative (HARI) has advanced the field of cultural property restitution by merging three essential elements: preserved wartime archives, advanced artificial intelligence and forensic analysis, and intensive human investigation. Working alongside Holocaust survivor and researcher Clara...

Jonathan H. Schwartz

Aug 12, 2025, 10:24 PM

By Force and Under Guard: Hungary’s 1944 Art Theft

Armed Escorts, Requisitioned Convoys, Regional Hubs, and Complicit Banks: How Hungary’s Wartime Machinery Stripped Jewish Citizens of Art, Heirlooms, and Financial Assets Introduction On June 23, 1944, a Hungarian bank wrote to the government’s commissioner for seized Jewish art, reporting that...

Jonathan H. Schwartz

Aug 12, 2025, 7:52 AM

Looted in Hungary: Hatvany Deutsch Library

In the autumn of 1944, as deportations of Hungary’s Jews entered their final months, the country’s cultural institutions were not bystanders. They were active participants in a program of state-directed cultural plunder. One case—preserved across three consecutive archival slides—illustrates...

Jonathan H. Schwartz

Aug 11, 2025, 6:57 AM

Beyond Art: Hungary’s Stolen Jewish Property

Introduction Most accounts of Holocaust looting focus on paintings and sculptures. But in 1944 Hungary, the machinery of theft reached far deeper—into family bedrooms, laboratories, schools, and private collections—stripping Jewish families of everything from gold wedding rings to geological cabinets,...

Jonathan H. Schwartz

Aug 10, 2025, 10:05 AM

Teachers and Students Helped Seize Jewish Art

Teachers, Students, and the Machinery of Cultural Seizure in Hungary (1944) A Holocaust Art Recovery Initiative (HARI) Report Introduction In the summer of 1944, as deportation trains rolled east, Hungarian classrooms stood empty. The state filled them — not with children, but...

Jonathan H. Schwartz

Aug 9, 2025, 9:13 AM

Survivor Uncovers Hungary’s Holocaust Art Theft

Clara Garbon-Radnoti is 96 years old. A Holocaust survivor, translator, and researcher, she has spent nearly two decades combing through Hungarian wartime records — and in the process, uncovered some of the most detailed evidence yet of the state-orchestrated...

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