Provenance Research:
Jüdisches Museum Franken, Fürth (Jewish Museum of Franconia, Fürth)
Museum
Jüdisches
Museum Franken, Fürth (Jewish Museum of Franconia, Fürth)
Research into Nazi-confiscated works of art
in the museum's collection
In 1990, when the museum was
in the process of being created, it was given several objects by a local
citizen. One of these was an eighteenth century torah breastplate. Conservation
work on the breastplate led to the discovery of a small note indicating the town
of its provenance. This was confirmed when the museum consulted an extensive
inventory of Judaica created by Theodor Haburger in 1927, which included a
photograph of the breastplate and also indicated that the object belonged to the
Dottenheimer family. It had been looted during Kristallnacht in 1938, when the
local synagogue, Jewish businesses and private homes were destroyed. In late
1998 the museum traced the children of the only family member to have survived
Nazi persecution, a son who emigrated to the USA in 1937. The object was
restituted in 2000 but remains in the museum on permanent loan.
Contact
Bernhard
Purin, Director
Jüdisches Museum Franken
Königstraße 89
90762
Fürth
Tel: + 49 (0) 911 770577
Fax:+49 (0) 911 7417896
Email: info@juedisches-museum.org
http://www.juedisches-museum.org/
overview and directions in English
Source
Bernhard Purin, 'Das Tora-Schild aus
Gunzenhausen', in Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluste (ed.), Beiträge
öffentlicher Einrichtungen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland zum Umgang mit
Kulturgütern aus ehemaligem jüdischen Besitz
(Magdeburg: Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluste, 2001), 106-117. Text in
German, Summary in English
<http://www.juedisches-museum.org/>, accessed 12 December 2002
