B’nai B’rith Magazine: The Unfinished Quest for Restitution of Jewish Silver Plundered by the Nazis – B’nai B’rith International

In 1939, Jews in Germany and Austria were ordered to surrender their jewelry, gold, silver and other precious metals to the Nazis. Many items were purchased by the Bavarian National Museum in Munich. In recent years, the museum has been attempting to reunite these pieces with their rightful owners, but the process has not been easy.