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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 Pissarro painting, in Geneva in 1951, Swiss courts had dismissed his case because the statute of l...
Editorâs note: The Dailyâs interview with Léone Meyer was conducted in French, with the assistance of OU French Professor Peyton Vann. All quotes from Meyer and her attorney were translated from the French transcript of the interview unless stated otherwise.  Holocaust survivor and French businesswoman Léone Meyer spoke in French for the duration of her hour-long interview with The Daily. Separated by seven hours and over 4,000 miles, OU French professor Peyton Vann translated as Meyer shared the story behind her ongoing legal struggle with OU over the ownership of â...
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, and Oklahoma University’s Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art, which was gifted the painting by a local fam...