E. Randol Schoenberg

Eric Randol Schoenberg (born September 12, 1966) is an American lawyer and genealogist, based in Los Angeles, California, specializing in legal cases related to the recovery of looted or stolen artworks, particularly those by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust.

[3][4][5][6] Schoenberg is widely known as one of the central figures of the 2015 film Woman in Gold, which depicted the case of Maria Altmann against the government of Austria.

He used a portion of his fee to fund a new building and expansion of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.

[4][13] Schoenberg is featured in the documentary films Stealing Klimt[14] and Adele's Wish,[15] which deal with the events surrounding Altmann's case against the government of Austria.

He is depicted by Ryan Reynolds in Woman in Gold, a 2015 feature film dramatizing the case.

He is an avid genealogist and serves as a volunteer curator for Geni.com, one of its most active users, managing over 150,000 profiles.