The Foundation recently contributed meaningful additions to the Monuments Men and Women Foundation Collection at the National WWII Museum when senior researcher Casey Shelton traveled to the Museum to transfer several objects donated by relatives of two Monuments Men.

A WWII Italian naval ship’s wheel was returned to Italy by the Monuments Men and Women Foundation during an event at the Italian Ambassador’s residence.

Ninety-three-year-old June Brandt of Richmond, TX, contacted the Monuments Men and Women Foundation after reading Edsel’s Houston Chronicle op-ed about the Forever Promise Project. Her brother, Staff Sergeant William Durham “W. D.” West Jr., was just twenty-one when his plane was shot down over Germany two weeks before the end of World War II. June later learned that his grave—like all 8,000 at the Netherlands American Cemetery—has been lovingly adopted by a Dutch family for

The Forever Promise Project—a new initiative dedicated to connecting all of the families of American service members memorialized at the Netherlands American Cemetery with the Dutch citizens who have devotedly adopted their graves—is gaining powerful momentum thanks to the support of Bank of America.

By a serendipitous find, we uncovered a previously unknown photograph of Rose Valland in the Theodore Allen Heinrich Papers, housed at the Archives and Special Collections of the University of Regina in Canada.

Thanks to a handful of tips received through the Foundation’s Art Leads program, the Foundation was able to halt the auction of two 17th century small oil paintings listed as unclaimed property in Newark, Ohio and attributed to Dutch master Bosschaert.