By Tom Teicholz at 3 July, 2009, 5:07 pm
This is an amazing story in this week’s Forward.com– and the local angle is that Randol Schoenberg — whom the Klimt case against the Austrian government is pressing this one on behalf of Molnar’s great-grandson Gabor Lukin
read it here: http://forward.com/articles/108795/
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