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The Josef Pollák Collection
Entitled The Josef Pollák Collection, this online exhibition presents the results of research conducted by the Documentation Centre for Property Transfers of the Cultural Assets of WWII Victims, focusing on the deposit that Josef Pollák placed in the...Show detail
The story of Francis Sprinzels: a Jewish refugee, collector and entrepreneur
The latest edition of MEMO magazine contains an article by Vojtěch Řapek of the CDMP, which recounts the life of the Prague-based entrepreneur and art collector, Francis Sprinzels.Show detail
The publication A nation lives as long as its cultural monuments live. Art Theft in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 1939-1945. Mechanisms, development, contexts
The Documentation Centre has published an English translation of a book mapping the confiscation of art objects and valuables in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in 1939-1945. The publication A nation lives as long as its cultural monuments live.Show detail
The travelling exhibition of the Documentation Centre entitled Looted Art
The travelling exhibition of the Documentation Centre entitled Looted Art, which introduces the audience to the issue of the expropriation of the property of the victims of the Second World War and presents the fate of some of the original owners of the...Show detail
Proceedings of the International Conference Transferred to Reich Ownership
On 17 - 18 September 2024, the Documentation Centre for Property Transfers of the Cultural Assets of WWII Victims, p.b.o. organized the 8th International Conference on the expropriation of property during the Second World War. These proceedings contain...Show detail
Article on the conference Transferred to Reich Ownership
The current issue of Kunst und Recht – Journal für Kunstrecht, Urheberrecht und Kulturpolitik contains an article on the conference Transferred to Reich Ownership. Documenting, identifying and restituting Nazi-looted cultural property, organised by...Show detail
8th International Conference Transferred to Reich Ownership was successfully concluded.
On Wednesday afternoon, the program of the 8th International Conference Transferred to Reich Ownership was successfully concluded. Many thanks go to the speakers for their inspiring contributions and to the participants for the intriguing debate, which...Show detail
Identified original owners
The fates of the original owners of the Nazi looted art
Publications
A nation lives as long as its cultural monuments live. Art theft in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 1939–1945. Mechanisms, development, contexts.
The publication "A nation lives as long as its cultural monuments live. Loot of art in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in the years 1939–1945. Form, Course, Context" maps the confiscation of art objects and valuables on the territory of the...Show detail
Proceedings of the International Conference Transferred to Reich Ownership
On 17 - 18 September 2024, the Documentation Centre for Property Transfers of the Cultural Assets of WWII Victims, p.b.o. organized the 8th International Conference on the expropriation of property during the Second World War. These proceedings contain...Show detail
The Collection of the Jew Josef Pollák . Deposit no. 1164 in The Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague.
The book deals with the family of the Jewish collector Josef Pollak and his collection of miniatures, porcelain, paintings, drawings and graphic works, which he transferred in the spring of 1939 as Deposit No. 1164 to the Museum of Decorative Arts in...Show detail