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Another story about recovered artworks whose owners were never found. Israel's national museum is hosting two new painting exhibits with a tragic history.

The paintings featured at the exhibits were stolen by the Nazis during World War II and were never reclaimed by their rightful owners. Many were killed in the war.

The exhibits include paintings by masters like Henri Matisse, Claude Monet and Georges Seurat.

Visitors who recognize a painting as their own and can prove it can file a claim and potentially take it home.

The first exhibition called "Looking for Owners," is made up of 53 paintings on loan from French museums.

The companion exhibit, "Orphaned Art," includes mostly lesser-known paintings and items given to the Israel Museum decades ago by a group known as the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization, which was entrusted to return unclaimed Jewish property in postwar Europe.

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