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
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
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
Preserving Memory. Holocaust in Monuments and Memorials in the Czech Republic
The Institute of Art History, CAS and National Heritage Institute are organising a conference entitled Preserving Memory. Holocaust in Monuments and Memorials in the Czech Republic. The aim of the conference is a professional evaluation of the topic...Show detail
RECLAIMED: a Family Painting
In October 2023, the Skirball Museum in Los Angeles will open an exhibition entitled RECLAIMED: a Family Painting. The exhibition tells the story of three generations of the family of Czech entrepreneur and art collector Johann Bloch and documents their...Show detail
The Special plenary meeting of the ICOM National Committee Czech Republic
The Director of the Centre took part in the special plenary meeting of the ICOM National Committee Czech Republic held in the beautiful premises of the Museum of Czech Literature. In addition to the election of the new ICOM Board, the main topic was the...Show detail
New Director of the Center
The Documentation Center Administrative Board unanimously appointed Jana Jirásková as the new director of the organisation at their June meeting. Jirásková, the long-time deputy director of the Center, replaced Helena Krejčová, who was in charge...Show detail
The website of the Documentation Center has been expanded with a Related Materials section
The website of the Documentation Center has been expanded with a Related Materials section, in which various interesting facts related to the topics of property seizures of victims of the Second World War, provenance research or the fates of the original...Show detail
Artworks returned to the Heirs of Johann Bloch
An intensive and stimulating cooperation of the Documentation Centre with colleagues from the Holocaust Claims Processing Office, New York spanned for nearly three years. It was only crowned on February 14, 2023, by a special event in the Palais Nostitz...Show detail