Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: Jewish heirs of Holocaust victims sue California museum over Nazi-looted art

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Source: theguardian.com

<p>Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum holds 16th-century paintings stolen by the Nazis during the second world war</p><p>Jewish heirs of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/holocaust" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Holocaust</a> victims and their representatives have filed two lawsuits in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/california" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">California</a> staking their claims to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/nazism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Nazi</a>-looted paintings that still hang on the walls of prominent museums in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/los-angeles" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Los Angeles</a> and Auschwitz.</p><p>This pair of lawsuits are the first to be filed after the recent passage of laws by California and the US Congress, which strengthen US-based claims to artwork that were forcibly taken from Jewish families during the second world war.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/19/lawsuit-california-museum-nazi-looted-art" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>

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