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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/14941/full/14941/u-k-to-pay-heirs-for-nazi-looted-art/ <br /><br /> <b>U.K. to pay heirs for Nazi-looted art</b> <br /> Friday, January 26, 2001 | by <p>LONDON (JTA)—For the first time, Britain is planning to pay heirs of a Holocaust victim whose art was looted by the Nazis. </p> <br /><br /><p>The banker's family was forced to sell Dutch-born artist Jan Griffier the Elder's "View from Hampton Court" after the banker was killed. His wife sent their children to Britain before she herself fled to Belgium.<br /><br /> She was captured and spent two years in a concentration camp before being reunited in 1946 with her family in Britain, where she died in 1968.<br /><br /> The painting dropped out of sight until 1955, when it was sold at auction in Germany.<br /><br /> Six years later, the Friends of the Tate Gallery bought the painting and presented it to the museum.<br /><br /> There is no suggestion that the Tate, a national museum, was aware that the painting was looted art.<br /><br /> The painting remained in the Tate collection, where the banker's son saw it in 1990.<br /><br /> He approached the Tate directly for financial compensation in July 1999, but at the time, there was no formal procedure for making Holocaust-related compensation claims in Britain.<br /><br /> The British government set up the Spoliation Advisory Panel to handle such claims in February 2000.<br /><br /> The banker's son submitted his claim to the panel last June. The claim included slides of the Griffier painting that his father had had made for insurance purposes.<br /><br /> An adviser to Janner, who represented the claimant during proceedings, described the settlement as "a pretty good deal."<br /><br /> "It's roughly the value of the painting, once you take restoration and insurance costs into account," said Mitchell Coen.<br /><br /> The payment is officially designated as ex-gratia, meaning it comes in recognition of a moral responsibility, not as compensation.</p> <p> </p>

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