The email is absolutely legitimate and should not be taken lightly.

The email address belongs to a lawyer who has now successfully 
prosecuted cases on behalf of a family who are seeking to claim their 
rights to works of art (or their value) which were liquidated after 
having been stolen by Nazis. There is a very long paper trail of similar 
cases brought (successfully) by this lawyer. The family is very well 
informed and have very specific and detailed information about the 
pieces in question.

Other museums which have encountered a claim originating from this case 
were contacted initially by fax and the vast majority of correspondence 
was carried out by email.

I wish your museum luck in dealing with this. I (humbly) suggest that 
you consider strongly your choice to forward any related future 
correspondence to an email list like Museum-L as the family and/or 
lawyer in question might not feel that the resulting discussion fell 
within the bounds of professional discretion, especially given the 
number of responders who have asserted that they are running a scam and 
the sensitivity of the issue.

In the rush to gather whether this email is real it may have been all 
too easy to forget that the family have been the victim of a very 
serious crime in which they are among many, many people who lost their 
lives and livelihoods.

Best wishes,
Dominique Bouchard

-- 
Dr Dominique Bouchard
Hunt Museum Curator of Education and Outreach

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