Barancik served in Salzburg, Austria where he helped collect stolen treasures and return them to original Jewish owners

Institution looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars given a decade ago by Ingrid Flick, who inherited money from German industrialist found guilty of war crimes

Tel Aviv Museum of Art faced criticism for collaboration with auction house after sale of collection belonging to a family that became rich by dispossessing Jews during Holocaust

Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum surrenders 19th-century painting by French artist Gustave Courbet stolen from Paris apartment of Robert Bing in 1941

Works by artist Egon Schiele, seized from Jewish cabaret artist Fritz Grunbaum during Holocaust, are expected to fetch $2.8 million

Amid widespread ignorance about genocide, state law requiring museums to label plundered art will inform public and pressure museums, but implementation remains unclear

Sci-fi drama explores story of infamous train filled with art, silver and other valuables stolen by Nazis from Hungarian Jews, then pillaged again by American forces after the war

Culture Minister Bachelot hails 'historic' bill, but Senate approval still needed; among pieces to be returned are a Klimt and a Chagall

Nazis plundered books and religious items from synagogues and communal institutions in Thessaloniki; they were transferred to Moscow after the Red Army took Berlin in 1945

No one has been criminally charged into investigation of 17 items, which include community ledgers, memorial books, records of European communities