MATTER OF FLAMENBAUM

328146.

27 Misc.3d 1090 (2010)

899 N.Y.S.2d 546

In the Matter of the Accounting of HANNAH K. FLAMENBAUM, as Executor of RIVEN FLAMENBAUM, Deceased. VORDERASIATISCHES MUSEUM, Claimant.

Surrogate's Court, Nassau County.

Decided March 30, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hamburger Weinschenk & Fisher, New York City, for Vorderasiatisches Museum, claimant.

Jaspan Schlesinger Hoffman LLP, Garden City, for Hannah K. Flamenbaum, executor.

Reilly & Reilly, LLP, Mineola, for Israel Flamenbaum, objectant.


OPINION OF THE COURT

JOHN B. RIORDAN, J.

An ancient gold tablet, discovered during archaeological excavations in 1913 in the Ottoman Empire, disappeared from a Berlin museum in the immediate aftermath of World War II and reappeared almost 60 years later in the safe deposit box of a Holocaust survivor in Great Neck, New York. Before the court today is a claim filed on behalf of the Vorderasiatisches Museum of the Federal Republic of Germany against the estate...

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