The Midtown Gazette

A Columbia Journalism School newsroom covering Midtown Manhattan in the heart of New York City.


Tag: Holocaust
  • New State Law Requires Museums to Identify Nazi-Looted Art

    New State Law Requires Museums to Identify Nazi-Looted Art

    In August, Governor Kathy Hochul signed a series of new laws intended to support Holocaust survivors in educational, cultural and financial institutions. Within the legislative package is a law requiring museums to identify displayed artwork stolen during Europe’s Nazi era with a placard or other signage. Though the law was implemented immediately at signing, the…

  • Local Researchers digitize Holocaust documents

    Local Researchers digitize Holocaust documents

    A local archive is working on a historic effort to digitize a cache of pre-war Yiddish documents rescued from the hands of the Nazis.