The heirs of a Jewish woman persecuted by Nazi Germany have sued the actress Elizabeth Taylor for ownership of a Van Gogh painting which they claim rightfully belongs to them. The South African and Canadian descendants of the woman who fled Germany in the late 1930s say the actress should have known when she bought the painting for 257,600 dollars in 1963 that it had been stolen by the Nazis. The suit was filed in Los Angeles after the 72-year-old movie star filed a law suit in May seeking a declaration that she is the rightful owner of the 1889 painting by Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh. Taylor, 72 bought "View of the Asylum and Chapel at Saint-Remy" at a Sotheby's auction in London in 1963 and now keeps it at her Los Angeles home. But the heirs of the woman argue that the work was wrongfully acquired by the Nazis around the time of World War II and that Taylor and her representatives should have been aware of its origins.