The Laocoön group is an ancient Greek sculpture and a defining masterpiece of the Vatican Museums that was found nearly intact underground in a Roman vineyard in 1506. Its right arm was discovered just meters from that spot, 400 years later by the Jewish art dealer Ludwig Pollak. After donating the Laocoön arm to the Pope, Pollak was targeted several years later by the Nazis. He refused protection from the Vatican, and he and his family were deported and killed in the Nazi gas chambers. Attempts