Curator Ariel Bassano addresses the media next to a portrait of Contessa Colleoni by Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, an iconic painting stolen decades ago by the Nazis, following its recovery by Argentine officials after it was spotted in a real estate photo, in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Sept. 3, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Jose Scalzo

The daughter of a Nazi was charged on Thursday by Argentina’s federal court with concealing a painting stolen by her late father and “theft in the context of genocide” after the piece of art was turned over to authorities, local media reported.

Patricia Kadgien and her husband were placed under house arrest for three days earlier this week as authorities conducted raids on properties owned by the family in a failed attempt to find the 17th century painting “Portrait of a Lady” by Italian painter Giuseppe Ghisland. On Wednesday, a lawyer for the couple turned the painting over to the prosecutor’s office in Mar del Plata, outside of Barcelona, and at a hearing the next day, Kadgien and her husband were charged with aggravated concealment of property over their possession of the painting, the Argentine outlet InfoBrisas reported.

The court also banned Kadgien and her husband from leaving the country, ordered the couple to turn in their passports, and said they cannot stay for more than 24 hours outside of their home, according to federal prosecutor Carlos Martinez. “The crimes being covered up are serious, they are linked to crimes of genocide, theft in the context of genocide, and are related to a systematic plan to appropriate works of art and jewelry perpetrated by the Nazi regime,” Martinez stated.

The portrait of Contessa Colleoni is on the international list of lost art and the official Dutch list of artworks looted by the Nazis during World War II.

Kadgien’s late father, Friedrich Kadgien, was an SS officer and senior financial aide to Nazi leader Hermann Goering. He fled Europe after World War II and settled in Argentina, where he died in 1979. “Portrait of a Lady” was owned by the late Dutch Jewish art dealer and collector Jacques Goudstikker, who died in 1940 at the age of 42 during an attempt to flee the Nazis for England. Nazis in Amsterdam reportedly stole or bought under duress more than 1,000 pieces of art owned by Goudstikker, including “Portrait of a Lady.”

The painting by Ghislandi was spotted last month in a real estate photo for Kadgien’s home in Mar del Plata. In the picture, the iconic artwork was hanging on a wall above a couch. Authorities were notified after the painting was seen in the real estate picture, but when officers arrived at Kadgien’s home, the painting was missing and replaced on the wall with a tapestry. Officials could not immediately locate the artwork.

An art expert who worked on the case told the local La Capital Mar del Plata newspaper that he valued the portrait at “around $50,000.” Kadgien and her husband claim they are the rightful owners of the artwork, but Goudstikker’s family is fighting for the painting to be returned to them. Other artworks stolen from Goudstikker during the Holocaust were recovered in Germany and displayed in Amsterdam as part of the Dutch national collection, according to the BBC.

Prosecutors previously said that during raids on other properties owned by the Kadgien family, they discovered several pieces – including paintings, drawings, and engravings from the 19th century – that will be examined to determine if they were stolen during World War II.

Hasan Piker. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Organizers of the 26th annual New Yorker Festival are being sharply criticized for inviting Hasan Piker, a rabid anti-Israel online influencer and one of Twitch’s biggest streamers, to be a speaker at the event despite his vast history of making antisemitic and anti-Zionist comments, as well as expressing support for US-designated terrorist organizations.

The New Yorker Festival, hosted by the magazine The New Yorker, will be held in New York from Oct. 24-26. Piker has been invited to participate in a roundtable discussion on the last day of the annual event about “how the internet has reshaped political life — and what it means for the future of democracy.” The Turkish American political commentator will speak on stage alongside podcaster Saagar Enjeti and New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz.

In a series of messages posted on X, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said The New Yorker‘s decision to give a platform to Piker “is the latest example of mainstream media normalizing his brand of antisemitism and anti-Zionism.”

“Piker’s toxic and extreme rhetoric opposing Zionism and the Jewish state normalizes #antisemitism, reinforces bigotry, and launders terror – and it has no place at a conference devoted to prominent influencers,” the ADL added. The Jewish civil rights group additionally called Piker’s invitation to the festival “deeply ironic” considering that the event will also feature novelist Salman Rushdie, who has received death threats for decades from the Iranian regime that supports Hezbollah and the Houthis – two US-designated terrorist groups that Piker has publicly praised.

Piker, who has 2.9 million followers on Twitch, has compared Yemen’s Houthis to Holocaust victim Anne Frank, broadcast propaganda videos from the Houthis during his Twitch livestreams, and defended terrorist actions by the Houthis are “an act of resistance.” He also described Lebanese Hezbollah as a “resistance group” that is “successful” during a Twitch stream posted on Sept. 28, 2024, and added, “I don’t have an issue with them.” He has also said “America deserved 9/11,” and that “it doesn’t matter if rapes happened on Oct. 7,” referring to the Hamas-led deadly terrorist attack in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

“These extreme statements, and others, should permanently disqualify him from appearing at any major media festival,” the ADL stated in conclusion.

Piker justified the Oct. 7 attack in Israel and said he believes the terrorists were not motivated by antisemitism. “These aren’t barbaric monsters … it is not coming out of a place of antiquated antisemitic tendencies or that they wanted to go out and do mass rapes,” he said of the Hamas terrorists responsible for the attack.

“It doesn’t matter if f–king rapes happened on Oct. 7,” Piker also said during a livestream on May 22, 2024. “It doesn’t change the dynamic [of Palestinians and Israelis] for me.”

During a livestream on April 18 last year, Piker said he believes Hamas is the “lesser evil” in comparison to the Israeli military. He has also joked that a second “9/11” would be “so sick” and when asked during an interview what his favorite flag is, he replied, “Hezbollah.”

High-profile attorney Gloria Allred, who has represented victims of Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein, told The Telegraph that The New Yorker Festival should not be hosting someone who plays down the rape of women that took place during the Oct. 7 attack.

“We should not provide mainstream forums for persons who may wish to normalize the concept that rape doesn’t matter, because I believe that rape always matters, not only to the victims of rape, but also to the status and condition and future of women and girls,” Allred said. “I also believe that persons who express hate speech should not be invited to prestigious round tables. Anyone who suggests that it doesn’t matter if rape happened, [that] should be sufficient to exclude a person from an invitation list to participate in the New Yorker round table.”

Allred told The Telegraph that although she believes “people with unpopular and extremist views have a right to express their opinions, I do not believe that a publisher has any legal obligation to provide a platform to such persons to express their views.”

Piker has been celebrated in profiles by Rolling Stones magazine, the New York Times and GQ. He is also a supporter of New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, who has repeatedly accused Israel of “apartheid” and “genocide” in the Gaza Strip, and refuses to affirm Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state.

During a Twitch stream, Piker said any “Zionist entity” should be “treated in the same way as a rabid neo-Nazi, and you shouldn’t even let someone be the local dog catcher if they’ve ever exhibited any positive feelings about the State of Israel.”

At the 2025 People’s Conference for Palestine in August, he said “some of the worst people” in the world include “the Michael Rapaports of the world, the Amy Schumers of the world … Satan-yahu.” Both Rapaport and Schumer are proud Jewish celebrities and “Satan-yahu” is a clear reference to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The New Yorker Festival will be held from Oct. 24-26.

Meirav Gilboa-Dalal and Gal Gilboa-Dalal, mother and brother of Guy Gilboa-Dalal, an Israeli held hostage by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, attend a press conference after meeting with Pope Francis, in Rome, Italy, April 8, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane

Hamas released a video on Friday of two Israeli hostages seized from a music festival in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and one said he was being held in Gaza City, where the Israeli military has launched a major offensive to wipe out the Palestinian terrorist group.

Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Alon Ohel are two of 48 people still being held by Hamas in Gaza, with 20 thought to be still alive.

Palestinian terrorists led by Hamas took 251 hostages into the enclave after its cross-border attack on southern Israeli communities in 2023 that killed about 1,200 people, triggering the war. Israel responded with an ongoing military campaign aimed at freeing the hostages and dismantling Hamas’s military capabilities and political control in Gaza.

The video was edited and featured an exhausted-looking Gilboa-Dalal speaking for around three-and-a-half minutes. He is seen in a car for some of the video dated Aug. 28. Reuters could not independently determine when the video was recorded.

He says that he is being held in Gaza City along with several other hostages and that he is afraid of being killed by Israel’s offensive on the city.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military last month to capture Gaza‘s largest urban center, Gaza City, attacking what the government calls the last bastion of Hamas.

An Israeli military spokesman said on Thursday that it now controls about 40 percent of the city, where about one million people lived prior to the war. The military controls about 75 percent of Gaza.

Israel has been carrying out heavy strikes on the city for weeks, advancing through outer suburbs, and this week forces were within a few kilometers of the city center.

In the video, Gilboa-Dalal, 24, appears to be in the backseat of a car that is being driven around. As the car passes by buildings, he identifies one as belonging to the Red Cross. Hamas has refused to allow the Red Cross to see the hostages.

At one point, Ohel, 24, is also seen.

DICTATED SPEECH

Gilboa-Dalal was seen in a video in February being forced to watch other hostages being freed under a temporary ceasefire. Hostages who were filmed in similar videos and have since been freed have said their captors had dictated to them what to say.

Human Rights Watch has condemned Hamas and another terrorist group in Gaza for releasing videos of hostages, calling it inhumane treatment that amounts to a war crime. Israeli officials have described the videos as psychological warfare.

Netanyahu on Friday said it was “cruel propaganda.”

Tens of thousands of Israelis have staged weekly demonstrations calling for an end to the war to secure the hostages‘ release. Hundreds gathered on Friday at a public square in Tel Aviv to mark 700 days since the hostages were taken captive.

After the release of the video, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid on X urged Israeli negotiators to resume talks on a deal to secure the hostages. Most of those released so far were as a result of diplomatic negotiations mediated by the United States and Arab states, but the last round of talks collapsed in July.

However, far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said Israel should respond by fully occupying Gaza.

Israel’s military leadership has warned Netanyahu against expanding the war, according to Israeli officials. Families of Israeli hostages and their supporters fear the attack could endanger the captives.

Hamas has said it would release some hostages for a temporary ceasefire. Netanyahu is pushing for an all or nothing deal with Hamas releasing all hostages and surrendering.

Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Friday military operations would intensify until Hamas accepts Israel’s conditions for ending the war: release the hostages and disarm. Otherwise, the group would be destroyed, he said.

The terrorist group has long offered to release all hostages in exchange for an end to the war and Israel’s withdrawal.