An oil painting looted by the Nazis from a Jewish art collector was returned to the man’s heirs by the National Gallery in Berlin. New York State’s Holocaust Claims Processing Office arranged for Alexander Kanoldt’s “Olevano” to be returned to the heirs of Holocaust victim Ismar Littmann at a ceremony at New York City’s Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.
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