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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 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

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

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

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.

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

The Documentation Centre is a partner of the Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project

The Documentation Centre is a partner of the Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project

The Documentation Centre for Property Transfers of the Cultural Assets of WWII Victims is a proud partner of the Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project. The aim of this project with international representation is to create a central platform for archival...Show detail

Report by the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany

Report by the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany

The recently published report by the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany ranked the Czech Republic among the top seven countries that have made major progress in the field of research...Show detail

Identified original owners

The fates of the original owners of the Nazi looted art

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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.

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

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 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