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Before and during World War II, Nazis confiscated thousands of pieces of art from Jewish families for a museum Hitler planned to open in Austria. The families were sent to concentration camps.
UNC's Ackland Art Museum recently returned a painting to a Jewish family who'd had it stolen from them during World War II.
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Last week, roughly 80 years after it was stolen by the Nazis, the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill returned a historic painting to its rightful owner.
“If the work of art does not belong to the museum rightfully then, in our opinion, the only thing to do is to return it to its rightful owners,” said
A painting that's been in Chapel Hill for more than 50 years has been returned to its rightful owner.