O vioară pierdută în timpul ocupației naziste în Franța a ajuns la familia proprietarului său

A violin lost during the occupation was returned to its owner's family in France, marking a significant cultural restitution. The instrument, made in 1905, was handed over in a ceremony in Paris to the heirs of Gabriel Girondelot, who abandoned it in June 1940. This is the first public return of a musical instrument in France since the 1960s, according to the association Music and Spoliation and the Ministry of Culture. The organization, founded in 2017, focuses on recovering musical instruments and documents lost during the Nazi occupation. The violin originally belonged to Girondelot's brother-in-law, a talented musician who died in World War I. Girondelot reported the theft in 1945, and the violin was later listed as looted. It resurfaced at an auction in December 2024, leading to its return after being identified as stolen.