British government to compensate Feldman heirs for Old Masters

The British government will pay the equivalent of 316,000 US dollars in compensation to the heirs of four drawings from the collection of Czech Jewish lawyer Arthur Feldman that were stolen by the Nazis during World War II and are displayed in the British Museum in London, the AP news agency reported on Thursday. Feldman's grandson Uri Peled said he was pleased that the Old Master drawings would stay in the British Museum since his grandfather would certainly have liked them to be accessible to the public. The Gestapo stole the drawings from Feldman's house in Brno, in Moravia. The family members were tortured and killed by the Nazis.

Author: Jan Velinger