Matthias Weniger has made it his mission to give back silver objects that 'are often the only material things that remain from an existence wiped out in the Holocaust'

Funeral scrolls, manuscripts, other historic records traced to Jewish communities in Romania, Hungary, Ukraine and Slovakia will be auctioned off in New York City

Report publishes first map of Jewish-owned assets stolen in country during World War II, finds total worth was equivalent to $640 million today

Paul Signat's 'Quai de Clichy,' found in Gurlitt hoard, returned to family of Gaston Prosper Levy, who fled from Nazis in France

A 1950 law prevents about 75% of roughly 4,000 Jews who had lived there before the Nazi invasion of 1940 from applying for compensation for stolen property