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Treasures stolen and saved By Dana Gilerman Tags: Holocaust, Nazis  On February 19, the Israel Museum will open two exhibitions dealing with the fate of artworks plundered by the Nazis or lost during the Holocaust. The exhibition, "Looking for Owners: Custody, Research, and Restitution of Art Stolen in France during World War II," examines what happened to artworks plundered during World War II. The exhibition, curated jointly by the Israel Museum and several museums in France, presents 53 works whose owners have not yet been identified. The exhibit includes works by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, Eugene Delacroix, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Claude Monet. These make up just a tiny sample of the 60,000 objets d'art stolen in France, or that were forcefully sold and brought to Germany during WW II, and then returned to France at the end of the war. Two thousand of these works, whose owners' identity remains a mystery, are displayed at the national museums in France - the Louvre, the D'Orsay and the Pompidou Center. A Advertisement second exhibition, "Orphaned Art: Looted Art from the Holocaust in the Israel Museum," features over 50 sacred items, paintings, books, drawings and prints by Max Lieberman, Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Marc Chagall, Egon Schiele, Alfred Sisley and others. The works were chosen from among 1,200 artworks and Judaica items deposited for safekeeping with the predecessor to the Israel Museum, and whose ownership is unknown. Bookmark to del.icio.us   Muslims study Holocaust For Dutch educators, Islamophobia can be a teaching aid for Holocaust studies. White House race Edwards is the angry candidate; Obama prefers conciliation.

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