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| Customs charges man NIS 3,400 for portrait looted by Nazis |
| 2004-11-06 |
| After working for several decades to recover a portrait of his mother that the Nazis looted during the Holocaust, Stephen Pohlmann was surprised to learn last week that he would have to pay the Israeli tax authorities several thousand shekels to retrieve the family heirloom from Ben Gurion airport customs. "I naively went to pick up the painting, but they wouldn't let me take it without first paying," he said of his attempt to pick up the century-old painting last Friday. "It doesn't make any sense," he lamented, "and I flat out refused to pay money for something that the Nazis stole from my family 60 years ago. There are some people who get reparation money, but in my case, they were making me pay them." |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |