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reparative history

Reactivating Forgotten Records: Holocaust Art Recovery in Hungary

03 November 2025 –

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In 1944, the Hungarian government carried out two operations simultaneously. More than 430,000 Jews were deported to Auschwitz in just eight weeks, while at the same time state officials—commissioners, police, and museum staff—systematically confiscated their art collections. The records of this bureaucratized looting survived on microfilm, largely untouched for decades. Read More

Short Film: The Power of Art for Reparative History

22 January 2025 –

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Something remarkable is happening in rural Alabama: a former plantation is being reimagined as a place for truth and reconciliation. But what’s most notable is who is behind it. A group of Black descendants of the formerly enslaved, and white descendants of the enslavers, have together formed the Wallace Center for Arts and Reconciliation,  a non-profit dedicated to reparative history through art.  Read More