Jewish heirs of Holocaust victims sue California museum over Nazi-looted art

Adam and Eve, painted in 1530 by Lucas Cranach the Elder, on display in the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California. Photograph: Gerard Vuilleumier/Norton Simon Art Foundation/AP Adam and Eve, painted in 1530 by Lucas Cranach the Elder, on display in the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California. Photograph: Gerard Vuilleumier/Norton Simon Art Foundation/AP Holocaust Jewish heirs of Holocaust victims sue California museum over Nazi-looted art Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum holds 16th-century paintings stolen by the Nazis during the second world war

Prefer the Guardian on Google Jewish heirs of Holocaust victims and their representatives have filed two lawsuits in California staking their claims to Nazi -looted paintings that still hang on the walls of prominent museums in Los Angeles and Auschwitz.