Title
Bureau for
Restitution and Reparations (Biuro Rewindykacji I Odszkodowan)
Description
Founded
in 1945, the Polish Ministry of Culture created this organisation to identify
cultural losses and prepare restitution claims, basing their work on records of
losses which were being compiled throughout the period of occupation starting in
1939. The Bureau was shut down in 1951.
It published a number of
catalogues detailing wartime losses in the field of Polish painting, foreign
paintings, sculpture and the decorative arts. Sources used by the Bureau
included not only those from before 1939 but also questionnaires which were sent
out to museums, private individuals and churches.
Source
Ministerstwo
Kultury I Sztuki, Biuro Pelnomocnika Rzadu do Spraw Polskiego Dzidzitctwa za
Granica
<www.mkis.gov.pl>