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Article: Legacy of the Holocaust lingers in the stolen art of World War II.
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- Investment News
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- April 24, 2000
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Susan Lindner's grandfather was an art dealer and curator at the Berlin Museum when World War II began. The family fled Berlin in 1939 and tried to take several of its valuable art works along, but the pieces were confiscated at the border.
Ms. Lindner's father, now 75, continues to look for those valuable paintings -- he remembers works by Dutch Masters Pieter Bruegel and Jan Vermeer - despite his frustration, age and the fact that he was young when he fled for England and has only vague memories of the stolen works.
"After the war, my father and his family were left penniless," Ms. Lindner says. "That's why there was a big push initially to recover ...