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Simon Goodman's grandparents came from German Jewish banking dynasties and died in concentration camps. And that's all he knew because his father rarely spoke of their family history or heritage. When his father died, Simon and his brother received numerous boxes of old papers. And little by little the true story of the Goodman (or Gutmann in German) family began to emerge. An incredulous Simon soon realized that his grandparents had been wealthy beyond belief and all their real estate, priceless art treasues, and eventually their lives, had been stolen by the Nazis. Simon's father had made an effort to reclaim his family's history but it would be Simon who succeeded.

Catalogs the 204 sculptures, ceramics, and drawings by Auguste Rodin in Stanford University's B. Gerald Cantor collection, and includes essays on the collection's development, Rodin's techniques, and critical reception.

Profiles the paintings in the Anschutz Collection, one of the largest privately owned collections of American West paintings in the world.

"By the end of World War II, the Nazis had plundered roughly one-fifth of the entire art treasures of the world. This work explores the history and formation of the Nazi art collection and the methods used by Hermann G?ring and his party to strip occupied Europe of a large part of its artistic heritage"--Provided by publisher.