California passes law to help Holocaust survivors and heirs recover Nazi-looted art

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California passes law to help Holocaust survivors and heirs recover Nazi-looted art

(JTA) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Monday aimed at advancing the restitution of Nazi-looted art, as well as personal property stolen during the Holocaust and other eras of political persecution. The legislation is a response to a court ruling that allowed a work by Camille Pissarro to remain in a Spanish museum instead of returning to the heirs of its original owners. The 1897 painting, called “Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon, …