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Prompted by New California and US Laws, the Norton Simon Museum is being sued for the return of Adam and Eve by Lucas Cranach the Elder once believed to be owned by Jacques Goudstikker, and the artist's heirs are seeking the return of portraits Dina Gottliebova Babbitt was forced to paint of fellow concentration camp inmates that are now in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum in Poland
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