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Quest to Track Nazi Loot Stirs Complex Emotions

Wesley Fisher's Database Could Help Identify Some Owners of Art Seized in Munich

Updated Dec. 23, 2013 5:02 p.m. ET

Wesley Fisher has been consumed for the past 25 years by a seemingly impossible question: What became of the many cultural treasures stolen from Jews during the Holocaust?

Then last month, while poring over headline-grabbing images of art seized by authorities from a Munich apartment, he had an "Ah-ha" moment. A Toulouse-Lautrec print, of a dancing couple, seemed eerily familiar.

Mr. Fisher is the research...

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