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.
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Emmanuelle Polack with her research materials at the Louvre Museums Centre du Dominique-Vivant Denon in Paris, June 23, 2021. Polack is the face of the French museums efforts to return stolen works. But some discoveries have put her employer in an awkward situation. Joann Pai/The New York Times.
by Elaine Sciolino
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- In a frenzied, four-day auction in the grand hall of the Savoy Hotel in Nice in June 1942, buyers bid on paintings, sculptures and drawings from the cabinet of a Parisian art lover. Among the 445 pieces for sale were works by Degas, Delacroix, Renoir and Rodin. The administrator monitoring the sale, appointed by the French collaborationist Vichy regime, and René Huyghe, a paintings curator at the Louvre, knew the real identity of the art lover: Armand Isaac Dorville, a successful Parisian lawyer. They also knew that he was Jewish. After Hitlers armies invaded and occupied Paris in 1940, the Vichy g