Anna Winger's series is based on Varian Fry's real-life rescue of thousands of European artists and intellectuals; critics warn of historical inaccuracies caused by dramatization
'The Father' sold by heirs of David Cender, who survived Auschwitz but never recovered the piece, which the Jewish painter purchased for himself after it reemerged following WWII
Oil painting estimated to be worth $6-8 million was purchased in 1928 by Polish-Jewish violin maker David Cender, who lost possessions upon expulsion to ghetto
Opening Friday, the Jewish Museum's 'Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art' is a testament to survival, despite attempts to eradicate an identity and culture
City of Vitebsk offers dilapidated building used by painter and his family for a nominal fee, but new owners will need to preserve its walls and restore architecture
In 'House of Glass,' The Guardian's Hadley Freeman writes a family memoir about her search to explain why her paternal grandmother survived, but didn't thrive after the Holocaust
Titled 'Jacob’s Ladder,' oil painting size of a sheet of office paper by famed Jewish modernist was scheduled for a 1996 sale but was swiped days before that auction
Painted at around the time of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, dramatic biblical work was recently found by a Jerusalem family among their deceased mother's possessions
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