French heiress gives up legal fight with the University of Oklahoma to retrieve a painting that was stolen from her adoptive parents by the Nazis during WWII, saying she had been left “no other choice.'
“This work of art, which belonged to my adoptive parents, Yvonne and Raoul Meyer, was stolen from them by the Nazis during the occupation of France in 1941,” said Meyer, a Holocaust survivor, in a statement.
Her adoptive parents had fled Paris during the Nazi occupation and were forced to hide the artworks they had acquired — including the Pissarro, as well as a Picasso and Renoir — in a bank vault.
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