Kyoto museum returns Nazi-looted art to kin of Russian owners

Kyoto museum returns Nazi-looted art to kin of Russian owners

KYOTO, Japan - Clemens Toussaint (L), a 1921 abstract pastel by Swiss painter Paul Klee (1879-1940) is handed over to the representative of the family of a Russian-Jewish couple who owned the painting when it was seized by Nazis in 1937. Masayuki Murata, director of the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum in Kyoto returned the painting on Jan. 29 to the family, 64 years after it was stolen, along with other works of art, while on loan to a German museum.

Russian Jewish Congress chief talks about diplomat Sugihara

Russian Jewish Congress chief talks about diplomat Sugihara

Russian Jewish Congress President Yuri Kanner and Japan-Russia culture center chief Suguru Kawamura (R) talk about the late Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara in front of a plaque commemorating Sugihara at a hotel in Moscow on Oct. 14, 2015. Sugihara saved the lives of thousands of Jews during his tenure as vice-consul at the Japanese Consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, from 1939 to 1940 by issuing transit visas to Japan to many Jews escaping from persecution by the Nazis. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Kyoto museum returns Nazi-looted art to kin of Russian owners

Kyoto museum returns Nazi-looted art to kin of Russian owners

KYOTO, Japan - Clemens Toussaint (L), a 1921 abstract pastel by Swiss painter Paul Klee (1879-1940) is handed over to the representative of the family of a Russian-Jewish couple who owned the painting when it was seized by Nazis in 1937. Masayuki Murata, director of the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum in Kyoto returned the painting on Jan. 29 to the family, 64 years after it was stolen, along with other works of art, while on loan to a German museum.