Family claims painting by Wassily Kandinsky -- owned by Robert Lewenstein during Nazi occupation -- was illegally sold to Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1940
In admission of guilt, Protestant Church says it 'failed in speaking out and in keeping silent' during WW2 and 'prepared the soil where the seed of anti-Semitism could grow'
Site in Amsterdam's Jewish Quarter will feature names of more than 102,000 Jews, Roma and Sinti who were murdered in or on their way to Nazi concentration camps
The museum's usual 3,500 daily visitors, 90% of whom are foreign, has dropped to 1,000, all of whom are local; management says the decrease is a major threat to its bottom line
Jewish community representatives say offer is disappointingly low and money should be given to families as well as memorials; NS carried an estimated 102,000 Jews to their deaths
Cultural center of Dutch city's historic Jewish community holds several museums and the beautiful Portuguese Synagogue. But is it enough to draw cautious tourists?
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