Peled, Daniella
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
07-15-2005
LONDON, July 14 (JTA) -- A dispute over four Nazi-looted drawings currently
in the British Museum is likely to lead to a change in British law to allow
art stolen in World War II to be returned to its legal heirs. The Old
Masters in question, once part of a large collection belonging to Arthur
Feldmann, a Jewish lawyer and a passionate art collector, were confiscated
by the Gestapo on the day the Germans invaded Czechoslovakia, March 15,
1939.

When descendants of Feldmann and his wife -- who both died in the
Holocaust -- submitted a claim for the artworks in May 2002, the British
Museum acknowledged their right of ownership of the drawings it had