January 24, 2007
Nazi-looted posters reclaimed
Peter Sachs was only a year old in 1938 when the Nazis seized his father's collection of rare posters and the Jewish family fled to the United States.From the Guardian. It sounds as if the museum will be fighting to keep the collection; no mention of working out a purchase arrangement, which would be the most sensible thing overall.He returned to Germany on Tuesday for the first time in nearly seven decades to try to recover the thousands of first-run prints that could be worth as much as $50 million. . .
Sachs, 69, of Sarasota, Fla., will testify Thursday at a government commission that will determine if the collection should be returned to him or stay at the museum, which inherited it from East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Posted by David on January 24, 2007 2:50 PM
There's an interesting article on the magazine and Sachs here.
- "He was arrested in the Pogrom of November 1938 and brought to the Sachsenhausen KZ. After a few weeks he was released and left with his family to London and then New York. In the US he was not allowed to work as a dentist till he took his exams. He decided to sell his Lautrec posters. He received reparation in 1965 for his collection. Some of his collection survived in Berlin Museum of German history.
He went to work at the film rating department and died in 1974."
Posted by: david tiley on January 27, 2007 5:44 AM
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