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His unit, tasked with safeguarding European art and culture amid the destruction and plunder of war, was dramatized in the 2014 Hollywood film.

In 1995, Barancik was part of a delegation of former Monuments Men who traveled to Washington, D.C., to receive the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Congressional Gold Medal.

He was part of a group that saved thousands of artworks during the Second World War from destruction and seizure by the Nazis

Barancik served in Salzburg, Austria where he helped collect stolen treasures and return them to original Jewish owners

His unit, tasked with safeguarding European art and culture amid the destruction and plunder of war, was dramatized in the film "The Monuments Men."

(JTA) — Richard Barancik, the last surviving member of the Allied military corps that hunted down and recovered countless artworks stolen by the Nazis, died July 14 in Chicago. He

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Richard Barancik, the last surviving member of the Allied unit known as the Monuments Men and Women, which during and after World War II preserved a vast amount of European artworks and cultural treasures that had been looted and hidden by Nazi Germany, died July 14 in Chicago. He was 98.

‘It’s a bittersweet moment that we knew was going to come,’ said Robert M. Edsel, an author whose book on the group was the basis for a film starring George Clooney.

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