Stolen Legacies: The Fight for Nazi-Looted Art

Stolen Legacies: The Fight for Nazi-Looted Art by Adena J. Bernstein. Thousands of artworks taken during the Holocaust still hang in museums and private collections, not because their history is unknown but because the law lets whoever holds them keep them. Bernstein, a prosecutor and the granddaughter of survivors, travels through thirteen countries to show how forced sales were recorded as ordinary transactions, how claimants were asked to prove what nobody could prove, and how delay became a substitute for justice. Part investigation, part legal analysis, part family history, it closes with living artists on why making anything still matters after a cultural record has been destroyed.