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The battle for the Woman in Gold
How an elderly Jewish refugee fought the Austrian government to get back a Gustav Klimt painting which had been stolen from her family by the Nazis.
The "Woman in Gold" was one of Gustav Klimt's most famous paintings. It was a portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer commissioned by her husband. But the masterpiece was taken from her family by the Nazis and only returned to her niece after a long legal battle. Louise Hidalgo has been speaking to Randol Schoenberg, the young lawyer who took on the case.
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