Evidence has emerged which suggests the couple at the centre of the Hunt Museum controversy helped Jewish families to escape from Hitler's Germany.
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre recently alleged that the late John and Gertrude Hunt had business dealings with art dealers who had Nazi links.
The allegations concern the collection of art and antiquities amassed from the 1930s onwards by Mr John Hunt and his late wife Gertrude, who were dealers in art and antique experts. Mr Hunt died in 1976 and his wife died in 1995.
Tonight's revelation however will throw doubt on the allegations made by the Wiesenthal centre. Their children have claimed that correspondence showing their parents' dealings with a group called the German Jewish Aid Committee will help to clear their family's reputation.
John and Trudy Hunt claim their parents' involvement in organising the evacuation of Jewish families from Germany flies in the face of recent claims that the couple had Nazi links.
The letters date from 1938 and 1939 and refer to apparent efforts by John and Gertrude Hunt to help a Jewish couple flee Germany for a new life in England.
The Board of the Hunt Museum launched an investigation into the origins of the collection after the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Mr O'Donoghue asked them to examine the claims.