The Lost Art of the Unfortunate Art can be a vague subject. There are many different art movements, art forms, and art styles. What one finds pleasant, the other cannot. Some may consider a work “degenerate” or vile, while others want it to hang in the living room for all to see. The way people interpret art and their opinions about art can lead to terrible things. In the hellish times of war, coins can be looted from the homes of those who are hunted. At the height of the Holocaust, entire collections were looted from Jews who were forcibly removed from their homes and sent to concentration camps. Today, years after the Holocaust, survivors and their families are fighting and struggling to at least get one piece that they had in their collections before the terror of the Holocaust began. The pieces have ended up in galleries and private collections throughout the United States and Europe. The pieces are one of the last remnants of their lives before all the chaos and grief caused by the Holocaust. The coins were taken from families by the Nazi regime. From there they were sold to museums in the United States and Europe. Some people think museums should keep the pieces because they purchased them fairly, while others think the pieces should be returned to their rightful owners as reparations for the horrible crimes committed against them. Who should be entitled to valuable works of art? The pieces were taken from Jewish families in the midst of the Holocaust. Survivors, along with their families, should have the artworks confiscated from them returned.The why, the how, the recoveryThe whySome may know that Hitler was intrigued...... middle of paper ... ...urce Prime Minister. Internet. February 5, 2014. Marks, John. “How did all this art end up in museums?.” US News & World Report 124.22 (1998): 38. Academic Research Premier. Internet. February 5, 2014.McDonald, Caroline. “Art Loss Register Tracks Looted WWII Pieces.” National Underwriter / Risk and Benefit Management 105.13 (2001): 3. Business Source Premier. Internet. February 5, 2014. Muller, Melissa and Monika Tatzkow. Lost Lives, Lost Art: Jewish Collectors, Nazi Art Theft, and the Quest for Justice. New York: Vendome Press, 2010. Print.Schlegelmilch, Stephan J. “The Ghosts of the Holocaust: Fine Arts Litigation with Holocaust Victims and the Statutory Application of the Discovery Rule [A].” Case Western Reserve Law Review 50.1 (1999): 87. Academic Search Premier. Internet. February 5, 2014. Zagorin, Adam. “Saving the spoils of war”. Time 150.23 (1997): 87. Academic Research Premier. Internet. February 5. 2014.