Nazi plunder: French museums to return looted art work to Jewish heirs

Eighty years in the past, on January twenty seventh, 1945, the extermination and focus camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by the Soviets. Of the 69,000 Jews deported from France, solely 3 p.c survived. Throughout World Conflict II, the Nazis looted property belonging to Jewish households. After the Liberation, hundreds of stolen artworks had been repatriated from Germany. Lots of had been handed again to their house owners, or members of the family who had survived the Holocaust. However others are nonetheless in French museums, as curators proceed to seek for their rightful house owners. Claire Paccalin and Stéphanie Trouillard report.  

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