Lecture, film on returning Nazi-appropriated art
(World News Austria)

Farnsworth Art Museum, in partnership with the Strand Theatre and the Adas Yoshuron Synagogue, will co-present a lecture by attorney Donald S. Burris, followed by a screening of `Stealing Klimt: The Documentary` Wednesday, Aug. 23, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Strand, 345 Main St. Beginning with the initial Blitzkrieg and continuing throughout the duration of World War II, the Nazi authorities implemented a pervasive program for stealing valuable artworks as they overran and ravaged most of Western Europe. The artwork was appropriated from mostly Jewish families in the occupied countries and the amount of art plundered was astronomical. ......