as part of the deal, daniel searle donates the degas to the art institute of chicago. >> the art institutelearly as "donated by daniel searle," but from the collection of fritz and louise gutmann. my grandfather didn't just die for nothing. he didn't just disappear. >> it's a landmark case, the first dispute over nazi-looted art settled in the us. >> the case renewed hope to families who might not have recovered property after world war ii, that indeed they could recover property. >> and as you're about to see, the goodman brothers' first victory makes them all the more eager to complete their father's quest. >> we went, "oh, my god! there's, like, at least two dozen paintings, some serious pieces of art." i thought, "this belongs to us. we'll find it." >> what's your "strange inheritance" story? we'd love to tell it. send me an e-mail or go to our website, strangeinheritance.com. ♪ >> now, back to "strange inheritance." >> brothers nick and simon goodman are on a mission to recover their family's valuable art collection looted by the nazis. after reclaiming one of their grandfather's most

my name is wilma parker and a long time artist and a graduate of the art institute of chicago and rhode island school of design and i came back later on for five years as a trustee and my main concern then was how do you accommodate artists? the term "artist housing" is misleading. they're not pdr or not factory workers and providence has the same problem as we have here and most of the buildings died when the industrial revolution fell apart so we have the situation in san francisco. it's really hard to find artist housing. what comes to mind fntion is the great trfnlg the ghost ship scbeerp all watching the news. this was a tragedy that never needed to happen. we have known for years how the artists live and to me is the great tragedy ever is the constant phrase "rich artistic community." starving artist community is more like tin fact the day of the fire people were talking about getting together to party with this rich artistic community. i mean the fact that maybe a couple -- ten, 12 artists were able to burn themselves to death by running too many extension cords and no stair case