Looted! - The Nazi Art Plunder of Jewish Families in France

Looted! Is a history of the lives and art collections of four French Jewish families, whose art was looted, and whose businesses were confiscated during the Nazi Occupation of France (1940-44).The story is of their lives, their businesses and art collections, and the journeys of their paintings during wartime and beyond. The four Protagonist families all made an important cultural and industrial contribution to France.The Bader/Heilbronn/Meyer family were founders of the French department store, Galeries Lafayette.Their entire art collections were looted by the German ERR and processed in Paris in copybook fashion; both Heilbronn and Meyer were significant members of the French wartime Resistance.Pierre Wertheimer founded Parfums Chanel, and he too had to flee from the occupier; a ‘friend’ offered to help save his paintings from plunder but betrayed him.Pierre and Denise Lévy of Troyes were founders of one of the largest Textile businesses in France, and post-war they donated their art