A lawyer said he would sue Hungary in a U.S. court for keeping art stolen by the Nazis. U.S. Holocaust claims lawyer Ed Fagan told Reuters that the suit would be filed Thursday on behalf of the Association of Holocaust Victims for Restitution of Artwork and Masterpieces, and concerns paintings that were owned by Baron Ferenc Hatvany, a prominent Jewish aristocrat in prewar Hungary whom the Nazis deported to a labor camp in 1944.
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