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Over the course of three decades, the Elizabeth Detention Center has become, for many, a symbol of immigrant injustice in New Jersey. This Friday, Rutgers University will hold a symposium, Elizabeth Detention Center: Past, Present, and Future, that will examine the ways in which the center reflects the larger story of immigration enforcement in the United States.  “We can get a view of 30 years of immigration policy by looking at what has happened at Elizabeth in those 30 years,” said Ulla ...

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A French heiress and the University of Oklahoma amended an agreement on a piece of art that Nazis stole from France during World War II.

Last modified on Tue 1 Jun 2021 14.24 EDT A French heiress has been forced to give up her battle to recover a Pissarro painting the Nazis looted from her adoptive parents. Léone-Noëlle Meyer, 81, announced on Tuesday she had been left with “no choice” but to drop legal action to retrieve La Bergère Rentrant des Moutons (Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep) after she was threatened with large fines if she continued. Last month a Paris court ruled that a contested contract Meyer signed five year...

Léone Meyer in 2015. Photo by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty Images. During the German occupation of France during World War II, Nazis stole the French Impressionist painting from the bank where the Meyer family was storing it when they fled the country. Meyer’s biological family was killed at Auschwitz, but the now 81-year-old was adopted by Holocaust survivor Raoul Meyer, who attempted to recover his looted collection. Unfortunately, the theft occurred in 1941, and by the time he found the...

Article content Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro’s tiny La Bergère Rentrant des Moutons (Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep) has for years been the subject of a three-way tug of war between a museum in France, a university in Oklahoma and the daughter of its original Jewish owners. When they fled France during the Second World War, wealthy Parisians Raoul and Yvonne Meyer entrusted their art to their bank, but in 1941 Nazi officers managed to loot the lot. Upon returning to Europe in 1945, ...

BBC News By Lucy Williamson image captionParis under occupation: Nazi Germany controlled the French capital from June 1940 Eighty years ago, Nazi officers entered a local bank in a sleepy corner of south-west France, and raided a safe deposit box there. Hidden inside, they found a stack of artworks, including a painting by Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro, showing a shepherdess bathed in warm light greeting her flock. image copyrightPatrice Schmidt/Musée dOrsay The painting had been hidde...

Last modified on Mon 15 Feb 2021 03.50 EST A French woman is being threatened with multi-million-dollar fines by a US court if she continues a legal battle to retrieve a Pissarro painting the Nazis stole from her adoptive father. The legal tussle over La Bergère Rentrant des Moutons (Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep), completed by Camille Pissarro in 1886 and worth an estimated €1.5m (£1.3m), is between Léone-Noëlle Meyer, 81, a former president of the Galeries Lafayette department store, a...

The First Art Newspaper on the Net   by Doreen Carvajal (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- For more than 70 years, Léone Meyer’s family has fought to reclaim a looted painting, and yet she cannot bear the thought of displaying it in her Left Bank home, across from the River Seine. The small work, by Camille Pissarro, shows a shepherdess tending her flock, and hangs not far away at the Musée d’Orsay, with other precious French impressionist paintings. But the peaceful countryside scene from 1886 is frau...