Restitution Ceremony of a Rare Document to Italy presented by Monuments Men and Women Foundation, June 6, 2023, 11AM. In the period 1945–1951, the Monuments Men and Women found and returned to the rightful owners more than 4 million works of art and cultural objects stolen by the Nazis. Still, hundreds of thousands of objects — including paintings, drawings, sculpture, tapestries, and rare documents — are missing.

Some of these objects are in the United States, brought here by veterans, immigrants, and art dealers. To date, the Monuments Men and Women Foundation has located and returned more than 40 such items, some priceless, to private collectors, museums, archives, and libraries in the United States and in Europe.