California legislators plan to introduce a bill Thursday that would bolster efforts by Holocaust survivors, their heirs and other victims to recover artwork and other property stolen from them as a result of political persecution.
California legislators plan to introduce a bill Thursday that would bolster efforts by Holocaust survivors, their heirs and other victims to recover artwork and other property stolen from them as a result of political persecution.
Army Pfc. Raymond U. Schlamp, who was killed during the fighting at “Horseshoe Woods” in 1944, will be laid to rest April 6 in his hometown of Dubuque, Iowa.
The U.S. military recently teamed up with the FBI and the Smithsonian Institution to return 22 artworks and other items missing since World War II to Okinawa. The return of the artifacts, believed to have been looted by U.S. troops, has rekindled interest in other treasures lost during the Battle of Okinawa nearly 80 years ago.