Nearly 80 years ago, Nazis stole a family’s painting. Now an American judge will decide if it should be returned

For 25 years, a painting by the Impressionist master Camille Pissarro has hung on a museum wall in Spain.

The artwork’s dark past is no secret: In 1939, months before the start of the Second World War, Nazi officials forced a Jewish woman to trade it for her freedom as she tried to flee Germany.

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