Perhaps this is relevant:
http://www.aam-us.org/pubs/mn/MN_MA06_VitalizingMemoryExcerpt.cfm
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Beth Parker Miller
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> We have recently received the following email. We are investigating its
> legitimacy and are interested to know if others may have received such
> an email as well.
> Thank you.
> Beth Parker Miller
> Registrar
> Winterthur Museum
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> 302-888-4988
>
> From: SL Avocat [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 6:17 AM
> To: Linda Eaton
> Subject: Oppenheimer Estate claim of the silver soup tureens made by Johann
> Sebastian Würth Vienna 1781
>
> Dear Mrs.Eaton,
> May I present myself to you: I am the attorney of law of the heirs of Rosa
> and Jakob Oppenheimer, well-known art dealers and gallerists in Berlin who
> had to leave Germany in the very beginning of 1933 to escape from
> being murdered by Hitler's SA men, as well as the liquidator of the five
> companies they inherited the shares of by a bequest of Albert Loeske, one of
> the richest man in Berlin at this time because they worked for him in a very
> profitable way, such as the van Diemen & Co. Cie.
> These fine people did not overlive persecution. They fled to France. They
> hid in Nizza. Rosa who wanted to go out sometimes, was arrested and deported
> to Auschwitz where she got killed. Her husband did of sorrow in Nizza. They
> had three children Nelly divorced Bloch, Hildegard married STEIN and Hans
> who overlived, who overlived, got maried and had children for whom I am
> working.
> I hereby claim In my quality as attorney of law and liquidator of the art
> galeries one of which is the van Diemen & Co. company, and in the the name
> of all the heirs of Rosa and Jakob the above mentioned silver soup tureens
> which Rosa and Jakob were deprived of in duress at the Graupe auction, a
> so-called "Judenauktion" No. 142 on April 26/27th, 1935 Nos.336 and 337,
> plate 71, at slender prices.
> I settled many files for my clients with American museums and institutes
> such as SMITHONIAN Institut, Mueum of San DIEGO,the State of
> California etc. The settlement with Smithonian is published so that you can
> consult it.
> My clients are open to your suggestions, either you give the silver tureens
> back to them and of course they had to sell them since none of the heirs is
> rich enough to pay the part of the others heirs, or you pay them the amount
> these works of art are worth, what means that the tureens have to be
> evaluated by a neutral expert.
> Finally I draw your intention to the fact that some of my clients cannot
> live anymore alone and are in very expensive institutions for desabled
> persons. So please let us settle the present matter at your earliest
> convenience.
> As you know, we have a Holyday in France (Pentecôte) and nobody else is
> working in my office as me. I will forward a claim to you "en bonne et due
> forme" in a few days.
> Looking forward to hear from you as soon as possible,
> With best regards
>
> Eva STERZING
> Avocat à la Cour
> Liquidator of the van Diemen & Co company
> adresse postale : 72, route de la Reine
> 92100 Boulogne Billancourt
> Tél.: 01.77.87.70.20
> Fax : 01.77.87.70.24
>
>
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