Helen Mirren recently testified in front of US politicians about the slow pace of restitution of looted Jewish art.
The 70-year-old Oscar-winner spoke at a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act (HEAR) this past Tuesday at Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
“When the Jewish people were dispossessed of their art, they lost some of their heritage,”; Mirren told the Senate. “Memories were taken along with the art, and to have no memories is like having no family, and that is why art restitution is so imperative.”;
“The very act of Nazi expropriation was not only unjust but it was inhumane,”; she added. “And yet, still today, it seems there are still some out there who lack the will to recognize the victims and their families as rightful owners.”;
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Mirren recently starred in the 2015 film “Woman In Gold”;, where she portrayed Maria Altmann, a real-life Jewish refugee who fought to recover artwork that had belonged to her family and was stolen by the Nazis in Austria during the Holocaust.
