david toren, now 88 and blind, left germany on a kinder transport days before the war began.ainting at his uncle's home in breslau just before his father was arrested by the nazis. both parents were murdered at auschwitz. >> david toren: there came two guys from the gestapo-- "we have instructions to take you to gestapo headquarters." that day, i remember every little detail. i was sitting in the anteroom at the winter garden and looked at the picture, and that was the last time i saw that picture. >> safer: toren had been searching for any trace of his family's art collection, but all he found was a 1939 nazi inventory that mentions the liebermann painting. >> toren: the letter says that the action to confiscate art owned by jews has been very successful, but there's still some rich jews left. and the first example, he mentions my uncle. and the letter ends with, "i want the jew, david friedman, not to dispose of any of the art objects until we come back." >> safer: after the war, the allies' art recovery unit-- the "monuments men"-- found and returned millions of artworks.