The Foundation remembers Congresswoman Kay Granger, whose steadfast support helped bring national recognition and a Congressional Gold Medal to the Monuments Men and Women.

Explore Raymond J. Dowd’s legal argument that international law requires the restitution of Nazi-looted art to rightful owners and heirs.

The Monuments Men and Women Foundation supports Blue Shield International’s 30th anniversary conference in Athens on cultural property protection.

The Hatvany family, prominent Hungarian collectors and patrons of the arts, lost a vast collection of paintings, porcelain, and cultural objects when their Budapest villa was seized during World War II and later looted amid the chaos of occupation and invasion. More than 1,000 objects remain missing today, and the family's descendants continue efforts to trace and recover this important collection.

When the Nachmann family fled Nazi Germany in 1938, a crate containing four valuable paintings—including works by Renoir and Pissarro—vanished during transit to the United States. More than eighty years later, three generations of the family continue the search for these missing artworks, hoping to recover cherished heirlooms lost during their forced exile.

Fritz and Thea Goldschmidt were prominent Jewish patrons of the arts in Breslau whose extensive collection of Impressionist and Expressionist works was gradually dispersed through forced sales, confiscation, and persecution under the Nazi regime. Deported to concentration camps and murdered in 1944, they left behind a legacy that their descendants continue to honor through ongoing efforts to locate and recover artworks lost from the family collection.