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Left: This 18th-century porcelain figurine of the commedia dell'arte character Capitan Spaventa owned by the Kaumheimers and lost for 64 years can be seen at the Legion of Honor. (Photo/Courtesy Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco); Right:
Janet Reves with her mom, Margaret Kaplan, in 2018.

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S.F. family’s Nazi-looted porcelain figurines returned, gifted to Legion of Honor

by Gabriel Greschler April 30, 2021April 29, 2021

The Kaumheimers were about to make it out of Italy alive. It was 1939, and the family of six had already left their German hometown of Stuttgart three years earlier […]