GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Justice is Served: Nazi-Looted Painting Returned to Heir

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Israel National News

27January2011 4:30pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:  In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jan.27), it is timely to report that a small act of justice – 61 years delayed – was carried out this month: A valuable Nazi-looted painting was returned to the grandson of its Jewish owners.

Associated Press reports that Rutgers University was informed over a year ago that it was holding a painting seized by the Nazis in Holland in 1940. Upon investigating the claim and finding it to be valid, Rutgers returned the valuable piece of art.
 

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