French national museums hold 2,000 works of art stolen from Jews

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French national museums hold nearly 2,000 works of art stolen from Jews by
the Nazis during the Second World War, it was revealed yesterday.On the
eve of "Holocaust Day" ceremonies to commemorate the anniversary of the
liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, the French government
announced that it was setting up an inquiry into the origins of hundreds
of artworks now in museums and believed to have been stolen from French
Jews by the collaborationist Vichy regime.
The works, now exhibited or stored in the Louvre, the Muse d'Orsay, and
other museums, include paintings by Monet, Renoir, Gauguin and sculptures
by Rodin.