{"id":111930,"date":"2024-04-13T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=111930"},"modified":"2024-04-09T13:38:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T11:38:24","slug":"05-00-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=111930","title":{"rendered":"California Lawmaker Introduces Legislation to Help Restitution of Property Stolen During Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>California Lawmaker Introduces Legislation to Help Restitution of Property Stolen During Holocaust<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Shiryn Ghermezian<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Visitors stand by Camille Pissarro\u2019s \u201cRue Saint-Honore in the Afternoon. Effect of Rain, 1897\u201d at Thyssen-Bornemisza museum in Madrid, Spain, April 22, 2022. Photo: REUTERS\/Susana Vera<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

California Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D) introduced legislation on Thursday that would assist California residents in recovering artwork and other types of personal property stolen during the Holocaust or other times of persecution.<\/span><\/p>\n

Assembly Bill (AB) 2867<\/a> would mandate that California law must apply in lawsuits that involve such stolen items.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis bill will ensure that Holocaust survivors and other victims of persecution can secure justice through our legal system and recover property that rightfully belongs to them and their families,\u201d said<\/a> Gabriel, who also co-chairs the California Legislative Jewish Caucus. \u201cOur effort will make it crystal clear that California law must triumph over foreign law, that California stands with Holocaust survivors, and that cases must be decided based on truth, justice, and morality, not the misapplication of legal technicalities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The bill was inspired by a ruling in January by the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that a museum in Madrid, Spain, was not forced to return a famous artwork by Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro to the heirs of a Jewish woman, even though it was stolen from her by the Nazis during the Holocaust. The court ruled against the descendants of Lilly Cassirer regarding the painting Rue Saint-Honor\u00e9 in the Afternoon. Effect of Rain. <\/em>The three-judge panel said the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, which is owned by the Spanish government, could maintain ownership of the artwork and decided to apply Spanish law to the case rather than California law.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt immediately made sense to me that this was a unique opportunity to correct a historical injustice and make sure that something like this doesn\u2019t happen again,\u201d Gabriel told the Los Angeles Times<\/em> about introducing AB 2867 after the court ruling earlier this year. \u201cRespectfully, we think that the 9th Circuit got it wrong, and this law is going to make that crystal clear.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He added that he hopes his bill will \u201chelp others, other Holocaust victims and other victims of genocide and political persecution. It\u2019s specifically crafted to be applied more broadly.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n

David Cassirer, the only surviving member of the Cassirer family, said in a statement that his father \u201cwould have been terribly disappointed in the recent ruling by the American courts, allowing Spain, through its national museum, to keep the Pissarro painting stolen by the Nazis from his beloved grandmother, Lilly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut he would be so happy, and grateful, that the California legislature is taking the necessary steps to apply California\u2019s laws ensuring the return of looted art to its rightful owners,\u201d he noted.<\/span><\/p>\n

California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis (D) supported Gabriel\u2019s bill and applauded its effort to \u201cempower California families to retrieve stolen and looted property that is rightfully theirs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe decades-long effort to return confiscated property to Jewish families is morally courageous,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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California Lawmaker Introduces Legislation to Help Restitution of Property Stolen During Holocaust Shiryn Ghermezian Visitors stand by Camille Pissarro\u2019s \u201cRue Saint-Honore in the Afternoon. Effect of Rain, 1897\u201d at Thyssen-Bornemisza museum in Madrid, Spain, April 22, 2022. Photo: REUTERS\/Susana Vera California Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D) introduced legislation on Thursday that would assist California residents in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111930"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112034,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111930\/revisions\/112034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}