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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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.