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Jewish family sues Hungary for the return of art collection looted by the Nazis
FEARING they were to be killed by the Nazis, the Herzog family scrambled to hide one of the world's finest art collections in a factory basement.
After World War II the paintings - now valued at $111 million - were expropriated by the new communist regime in Hungary and took pride of place in state museums.
There they stayed because no curator would willingly surrender a work as notable as El Greco's masterpiece The Agony in the Garden.Click here to read the full story.
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