Artwork believed stolen during Holocaust returned after 17-year fight with Ohio college
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Oberlin College in Ohio is returning a drawing believed to be stolen during the Holocaust from a Jewish art collector after 17 years of the family advocating for the return of the artwork.
The Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin — a private liberal arts college in Ohio — contains 15,000 items in its collection, including for several decades, "Girl With Black Hair." Sarah Rumpf-Whitten is a writer on the breaking news team for Fox News Digital. You can reach her on Twitter at @s_rumpfwhitten.
The Equal Protection Project (EPP) of the Legal Insurrection Foundation President William Jacobson told Fox News Digital that the art museum first bought the drawing in the late 1950s from an art dealer in France.
"They bought it, according to the court papers, in the late fifties from an art dealer in Paris, which of course should have raised flags," Jacobson said. "Any art purchased in immediate postwar Europe you would know to check the provenance of it to make sure it wasn't Nazi looted art."
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