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Article: Dutch government rejects claim for art collection recovered from Nazis
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- March 25, 1998
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03-25-1998
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) _ The Dutch government Wednesday refused to return dozens of paintings to relatives of a Jewish art dealer whose widow was forced to sell them during World War II.
Desiree Goudstikker was originally forced to sell the collection of about 1,200 art works to the Nazis after her husband Jacques died in 1940, trying to flee the occupied Netherlands.
The Dutch government recovered more than 90 of the paintings after the war and loaned them to museums, without telling Goudstikker's widow, who had remarried and settled in New York.
When she discovered that parts of the collection had been found, Mrs. Goudstikker negotiated with the ...