This is Rose Valland, one of the heroes of Nazi-Occupied France. An employee of the Louvre, she kept records of the art stolen by Nazi officers- what was taken, from where, and by who. She was instrumental in the postwar return of countless stolen pieces, and one of the most decorated women in French history.
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The name on the building says Floyd E. Patterson Building, but campus maps says merely Heating Plant.
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Tammam Azzam, Freedom graffiti
‘Kiss by Klimt’ painted on the remains of a building hit by bombs and bullets.
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