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Clarification: Holocaust-Drawing Returned story

Clarification: Holocaust-Drawing Returned story | iNFOnews.ca
Dr. Johann Schiller holds a replica of a nearly 200-year-old drawing, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016, in Washington, after the original was returned to his family from the National Gallery of Art's collection decades after his relative was forced to sell it during World War II because of her Jewish heritage. 'A Branch with Shriveled Leaves' by the German artist Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld had been owned by the artist's descendants until Dr. Marianne Schmidl sold it under duress in 1939. Although Schmidl was a Christian, her father was born Jewish and she was declared Jewish by the Nazis. Her last known whereabouts was the holding point for a concentration camp in Poland, and she died in 1942. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Original Publication Date: August 22, 2016 4:21AM
Publication Updated: April 27, 2025 7:59PM

WASHINGTON – In a story Aug. 18, The Associated Press reported that the National Gallery of Art was returning a drawing to the heirs of a woman forced to sell it before she was deported to a concentration camp in Poland. The story should have made clear that the concentration camp was run by Nazi Germany, which had occupied Poland at the time.

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