Eighty years ago, on January 27th, 1945, the extermination and concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by the Soviets. Of the 69,000 Jews deported from France, only 3 percent survived. During World War II, the Nazis looted property belonging to Jewish families. After the Liberation, thousands of stolen works of art were repatriated from Germany. Hundreds were handed back to their owners, or family members who had survived the Holocaust. But others are still in French museums, as curators continue to search for their rightful owners. Claire Paccalin and Stéphanie Trouillard report.
This story originally appeared on France24
Nazi plunder: French museums to return looted artwork to Jewish heirs
