Nina Siegal

Nina Siegal is the author of three novels and The Diary Keepers: World War II Written by the People Who Lived Through It. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times from Amsterdam. (May 2025)

The Spy in the Jeu de Paume

The detailed information gathered by the French curator Rose Valland about the Nazis’ looting of artworks made it possible for the Allies to recover tens of thousands of them after World War II.

The Art Front: The Defense of French Collections, 1939–1945

by Rose Valland, translated from the French by Ophélie Jouan, with a foreword by Robert M. Edsel

May 29, 2025 issue

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