Heirs Invoke California Law, Sue

Jewish heirs of Holocaust victims sued the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California, seeking return of Nazi‑looted paintings and invoking a new California law strengthening restitution claims.

New York Times

New Bid to Claim Cranach Paintings Held by Norton Simon Museum

Courts have upheld the museum’s title to the paintings once looted by the Nazis, but a lawsuit seeks to press forward with the claim under a new California law.

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The Independent

Holocaust survivors’ heirs sue California museums for return of Nazi-looted art

‘It's our honor to take on this role on behalf of the community and use most of the proceeds to help these elderly survivors’

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The Guardian

Jewish heirs of Holocaust victims sue California museum over Nazi-looted art

Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum holds 16th-century paintings stolen by the Nazis during the second world war Jewish heirs of Holocaust victims and their representatives have filed two lawsuits in California staking their claims to Nazi -looted paintings that still hang on the walls of prominent museums in Los Angeles and Auschwitz. This pair of lawsuits are the first to be filed after the recent passage of laws by California and the US Congress, which strengthen US-based claims to artwork that were forcibly taken from Jewish families during the second world war. Continue reading. . .

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New Bid to Claim Cranach Paintings Held by Norton Simon Museum

Holocaust survivors’ heirs sue California museums for return of Nazi-looted art

Jewish heirs of Holocaust victims sue California museum over Nazi-looted art

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New Bid to Claim Cranach Paintings Held by Norton Simon Museum

Holocaust survivors’ heirs sue California museums for return of Nazi-looted art

Jewish heirs of Holocaust victims sue California museum over Nazi-looted art

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