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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2023 46 Comments
The Grünbaum heirs tried in vain for 17 years to get Oberlin College to return the drawing, including multiple demands and a civil lawsuit. But it was a recent criminal seizure warrant out of the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and attendant bad publicity that appears to have swayed Oberlin College finally to give up the stolen property.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 01, 2023 82 Comments
The Manhattan D.A. recently issued a criminal seizure warrant for 'Girl With Black Hair' in the possession of Oberlin College's Allen Museum. Court records in a civil case reveal that the college has been fighting at least since 2006 against return of the drawing. This is in contrast to the college's repatriation of an item of Native American craft returned to the Nez Perce tribe in 2002. Are items stolen from Jews during the Holocaust less worthy of return than items obtained from Native American tribes?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 11, 2022 112 Comments
The Gibsons have collected the over $36 million owed them. Sadly, David Gibson and "Grandpa" Allyn Gibson did not live to see this day. By stretching out the appeals Oberlin College waited them out, but the rest of the family survives. We wish the Gibson family well.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 21, 2022 8 Comments
Lorna Gibson, wife of the late David Gibson, and trial attorneys Lee Plakas and Owen Rarric reveal new details about what it was like to fight the "billion dollar bully" and win, and the emotional and physical toll it took: "It's bittersweet ... My husband did not see the end, my father-in-law did not either."
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