'My grandfather needs to be part of that story and how it was recovered.' 'The story about how it came to be in that museum is important to me,' he says. At the very least, Leiber says he wants an acknowledgment. The Guelph Treasure is valued at $250 million. It's not clear what Jed Lieber and the other heirs ultimately want, or would settle for. Hackenbroch was beaten to death by a Nazi mob in Frankfurt. Julius Goldschmidt escaped to London, a broken man. The other two owners would not fare as well. In the end, Saemy Rosenberg, Leiber's grandfather, would flee with his wife and their daughter to the United states where he would rebuild his life as an art dealer.

Nazi officials 'were talking in very overt terms about the undervaluing of the collection they were targeting.' In fact, he notes, any museum that wanted to offer a fair price was simply waved off. When the Nazis were talking among themselves, he says, it is clear what they were doing. He adds that the archival records of the sale in this case tell a dark tale. 'Germany, a much larger country with a much more central role in the events in question' has handled just 17 such cases, he says. In an interview, O'Donnell said that while the Austrian government surprised many after the Altmann case by setting up a commission that has settled with hundreds of Jewish heirs in cases involving Nazi art theft, Germany has not. for those things, 'can these other countries do the same and accuse us?' he said, citing the 'Japanese internment, which involved 30,000 people in World War II.' Breyer said that's why, in his view, commissions set up to deal with these kinds of questions may work better. 'Terrible things happen in this world,' he noted, adding that the list of terribles 'goes on and on.' And if we can bring court cases in the U.S. Justice Stephen Breyer said that O'Donnell's argument seemed to have 'no limit.' Wouldn't your reading amount to 'a radical departure' in the way the law is interpreted, asked Justice Clarence Thomas. She won in the high court, and the Austrian government ultimately returned the painting, which she sold for $135 million to Ronald Lauder for his Neue Galerie in New York City.Д«ut justices both liberal and conservative, justices who are Jewish and those who are not, seemed doubtful.

In 2004, the court ruled that Maria Altmann, an elderly Jewish refuge living in Los Angeles, could sue the government of Austria in the United States to recover one of the most famous works by painter Gustav Klimt, the Woman in Gold, a portrait of her aunt. It was not the first time the court has dealt with the Nazis theft of important works of art. So Leiber was listening intently on Monday when the justices dealt with his grandfather's famous art collection and its coerced sale to the Nazis. 'I made a promise to myself that one day I would find everything that was taken from him and have it returned,' Leiber says. Jed Leiber remembers playing chess with his grandfather when he was a boy, and learning about all that Saemy Rosenberg had left behind behind when he fled Germany in the 1930s.

It's part of collection of priceless artwork that finds itself at the center of a legal argument at the Supreme Court. The medieval Dome Reliquary (13th century) of the Guelph Treasure is displayed at the Bode Museum in Berlin.

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