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

19 Sept 2026, 14:52 UTC · 2 independent sources

🚨 HOLOCAUST HEIRS FILE LAWSUITS OVER NAZI-LOOTED ART Jewish heirs of Holocaust victims and their representatives have filed two lawsuits in California. The claims target paintings on the walls of museums in Los Angeles and Auschwitz. The lawsuits are the first filed after recent California and US Congress laws strengthening US-based claims to artwork taken from Jewish families during the second world war. Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum holds 16th-century paintings stolen by the Nazis during the second world war. Source: The Guardian, The Independent #California

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