For Ramos in the state Supreme Court, the Nazis’ original persecution of Grunbaum, and how his art collection came into his wife’s possession, was central.

He wrote that the Nazis took away Grunbaum, but left behind his wife, Elisabeth Grunbaum-Herzl. Then once Grunbaum was at Dachau, he was forced, perhaps at gunpoint, to sign power of attorney over his possessions to her.