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The Netherlands is confronting its history of Nazi occupation – but many stolen objects remain unreturned

Eight decades after liberation from the Nazis, silence, shame and a struggling legal system keep Jewish property in Dutch family homes

Several months ago the Dutch art detective Arthur Brand was amazed to be contacted by a man who had recently made an uncomfortable discovery about his family’s wartime past: that he was a descendant of Hendrik Seyffardt, a Waffen-SS general and one of the highest-ranking Dutch collaborators.

Not only that, said the man, but he had found out something else: a painting by the Dutch artist Toon Kelder, which had been looted by the Nazis from the famed collection of the Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, was still in the possession of the Seyffardt family.

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May 15, 2026 Netherlands Art Second world war

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