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Rutgers U. Returns Renaissance Painting Stolen by Nazis

Rutgers University at New Brunswick has returned a Renaissance painting to the heirs of a Dutch couple who tried to trade the artwork and six others for safe passage out of Nazi-occupied Europe but instead were shipped to death camps, where they died....
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