Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945
76 Gloucester Place
London W1U 6HJ
England
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7487 3401
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7487 4211
Email: info@lootedart.com
Website: www.lootedart.com Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference)
P.O. Box 1215
New York, NY 10113
Telephone: 646-536-9100
Email:
info@claimscon.org
Website:
www.claimscon.org
This site publishes a variety of useful information, links to other organizations, and includes a form for registering a loss.
Holocaust Claims Processing Office
Department of Financial Services
1 State Street
New York, NY 10004
Telephone: 800-695-3318, outside U.S: 212-709-5583
Fax: 212-709-5407
Email: claimsques@dfs.ny.gov
Website www.dfs.ny.gov/consumers/holocaust_claims
This office will research art claims and assist claimants in submitting secure documentation, to establish ownership of any property located. It provides help to any claimant regardless of residence.
The Lost Art Internet Database
Humboldt Street 12
39112 Magdeburg, Germany
Telephone: +49 0 391 727 763 0
Email: lostart@kulturgutverluste.de
Website: www.lostart.de
A project of the Federal Government of Germany and its federal states, this site is also available in English, and Russian versions. Losses may be registered and the database searched. “We also publish reports by private persons or institutions about objects that have been found in their possession and are estimated to be Nazi loot or surely are.”
Musées Nationaux Récupération (MNR)
Site Rose-Valland
Web site: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/mnr/pres.htm
Email: Thierry.bajou@culture.gouv.fr
The MNR site includes a searchable database listing artworks returned to France after WWII included in the collections of French museums and currently unclaimed by their owners.
National Museum Directors’ Council
Science Museum
Exhibition Road
London SE1 6HZ
Email: suzie.tucker@nationalmuseums.org.uk/
Website: www.nationalmuseums.org.uk
The site contains links to British national museums publishing lists of their artworks with questionable provenances. Documents, news, and reports are also available. From the home page, click on “What we Do.”
Nazi-era Provenance Internet Portal
American Alliance of Museums
2451 Crystal Drive, Suite 1005
Arlington, VA 22202
Email: nepip@aam-us.org
Website: www.nepip.org
A designated AAM webpage includes listings of works with unknown or unclear provenances housed in the collections of U.S museums.
U.S. Holocaust Memorial
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC 20024
Website: http://www.ushmm.org
Phone: 202-488-0400
A “looted art” section contains useful information about art recovery including an extensive bibliography, mailing addresses and links to other sites.
Simon Wiesenthal Center
800-900-9036
Website: www.wiesenthal.com
Email: information@wiesenthal.com
A designated page on this site lists news and updates about art recovery projects and activities worldwide.
