When Karl and Rosi Adler fled the Nazis in 1938 they sold a Pablo Picasso painting to fund their escape. Now, their descendants are suing to get it back.
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Alleging the Adler family sale of the masterpiece valued at up to $200 million was made under duress and needed to pay for their escape from the Nazis 2016 America's Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act, compounds museum to return it
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