The “Maria Lactans” statuette will be given back to the family of German Jewish banker and entrepreneur Jakob Goldschmidt, who fled Nazi Germany soon after Hitler came to power.
The Berlin-based Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation announced today that the “Maria Lactans” statuette would be given back to the family of German Jewish banker and entrepreneur Jakob Goldschmidt.
Sculpture of Mary and infant Jesus had belonged to Jakob Goldschmidt, a prominent businessman persecuted by the Nazis and forced to flee Germany in 1933