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)
1359 Broadway
Room 2000
New York, NY 10018
Telephone: 646-536-9100
Fax: 212-679-2126
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 of the New York State Banking Department
1 State Street
New York, NY 10004
Telephone: 800-695-3318, outside U.S: 212-709-5583
Fax: 212-344-1555
Email: claimsques@dfs.ny.gov
Website www.dfs.ny.gov/consumer/holocaust/hcpoindex.htm
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
Telephone: +49 0 391 727 763 0
Fax: +49 0 391 567 3899
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
Imperial War Museums
Lambeth 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
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