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After nearly a decade of negotiations, a Pissarro painting sold under duress by a Jewish family during the Second World War will remain in a German museum as part of a settlement.

The agreement stipulates that the Kunsthalle Bremen, which has owned the painting Le Repos (Girl Lying in the Grass) since 1967, will publish a book that details the persecution of its original owners, the van den Bergh family, including the forced sale of their art collection. The Pissarro was sold to fund the family’s flight from the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940. The parents, Jaap and Ellen, survived the war, however, their two young daughters, Marianne and Rosemarie, who had been hid in a separate, presumed safer location, died in Auschwitz.

The museum reached a financial settlement that was privately mediated with a surviving van den Bergh heir, the details of which have not been disclosed, according to the Times.

Nine years ago, Dutch restitution researchers found a legal claim from the 1940s filed by Jaap van den Bergh.

“I was forced to sell the aforementioned piece to procure currency to survive,” van den Bergh wrote, as quoted in the Times. “Been in hiding for four years.” Van den Bergh and his wife were then hiding in Heemstede, a town outside of Haarlem.

Billionaire art collector Kenneth C. Griffin is among the top donors to outside spending groups for the 2024 election, which resulted in former President Donald Trump winning a second term.

The founder and CEO of the investment firm Citadel donated $100 million to conservatives, the fifth-largest amount for individual contributions to federal election spending, according to data released by the Federal Election Commission and analysis from Open Secrets, a non-profit research and government transparency group based in Washington, DC.

Open Secrets publishes data on campaign finance and lobbying. The organization was founded in 1983.

Griffin’s largest disclosed donations were to the Senate Leadership Fund, on four separate occasions, totaling $30 million. He also made donations totaling $15 million to the Congressional Leadership Fund, $15 million to the Keystone Renewal PAC and $10 million to Maryland’s Future, a single-candidate super political action committee in support of Republican Larry Hogan for the US Senate.

It’s worth noting that Griffin’s contribution of $30 million to the Senate Leadership Fund was more than one-quarter (25.8 percent) of its total raised ($116.5 million), the second-largest amount raised by an outside spending organization and the largest focused on electing conservatives in the 2024 US federal election.