Holocaust Art Resource List
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. Additional Resources:Trace
Office in Gloucestershire, U.K. Email: support@tracechecker.com Website: www.tracechecker.com The largest global online database of lost, stolen and seized property. The Getty Provenance Index Databases Email: reference@getty.edu Telephone: 310-440-7390 Fax: 310-440-7780 Website: http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/guides_bibliographies/holocaust_provenance.html Includes: Guide to Holocaust-era Research Resources Origins Unknown Email: info@herkomstgezocht.nl Website: www.originsunknown.org/ Dutch website for the Kunstbezit Collection focusing on the restitution of Holocaust assets and art including multiple links |