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Immortalized As 'The Woman In Gold,' How A Young Jew Became A Secular Icon

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Gustav Klimt's 1907 portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was seized by the Nazis at the outset of World War II. A film starring Helen Mirren now tells <a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/2015/04/02/396688350/after-nazi-plunder-a-quest-to-bring-the-woman-in-gold-home&quot;>the story of Adele's niece</a>, who fought to recover her family's paintings more than a half century later. (Neue Galerie New York)
Gustav Klimt's 1907 portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was seized by the Nazis at the outset of World War II. A film starring Helen Mirren now tells the story of Adele's niece, who fought to recover her family's paintings more than a half century later. (Neue Galerie New York)

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