New laws trigger a fresh legal fight over Nazi-looted art in Los Angeles and Auschwitz museums
LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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...
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