Charlene Von Sayer
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And at least for me, I thought, okay, this really is happening.
We really are going to do this.
And if it's one piece at a time or a group of paintings from the Dutch government, whatever, we're going to keep going and we're going to fight for this.
Yeah, very slow and frustrating.
And I know my mother, at least along the way, sometimes felt like we should throw the towel in.
And I think she's happy that we didn't.
And she's been pretty strong along the way.
It felt like we had restored a little bit of my grandfather's legacy.
We had corrected an historical injustice.
It felt amazing to hold something in my hands that my grandfather once held and once loved.
Yeah, it just, it was a very good feeling.
It begins, I believe, with a gentleman, Paul Post, who had found a diary in his father's attic.
He saw this name in his father's diary and started to research, and he found that there were sales between him and Miedel.
It is just amazing that this painting was found in the manner that it was found.
Some experts did a formal report and...
have also confirmed that it is the painting that once belonged to my grandfather and was stolen by the nazis i guess i want to ask you know does this portrait of a lady case feel like just another case just another retrieval or does this one feel different