Official Bodies and Reports:

Argentina

Official Bodies and Reports

La Comisión para el Esclarecimiento de las Actividades del Nazismo en Argentina (CEANA)

Armenia

Research Resources

Australia

Official Bodies and Reports

Presentations

Research Resources

Archival Records

21 April 2023: Restitution for missing property - art, objects and land - consequent of genocide, war, natural disasters - New PhD Program/Masters by Thesis at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

PhD Programmes

Austria

Cases

Laws, Policies and Guidelines

Looted Cultural Property, Libraries and Archives

Government Compensation Bodies

Museums, Libraries and Archives

Museums

Official Bodies and Reports

Art-related Commissions

Non-Government Bodies

Family History and Tracing Services

Related Websites

Dealer records

Belarus

Official Bodies and Reports

Research Resources

Belgium

Claimant Information

Claims Bodies

Official Bodies

Laws, Policies and Guidelines

Looted Cultural Property, Libraries and Archives

16 March 2017: Flemish Culture Minister Sven Gatz agrees desirability of Belgium publishing all looted works of art in its public collections on a central website

Looted Libraries

Documenting Nazi Plunder in Occupied Belgium and Limited Postwar Retrieval

7 December 2020: Documenting Nazi Library Plunder in Occupied Belgium and Limited Postwar Retrieval

Official Bodies and Reports

Official Presentations and Reports

Research Resources

Inventory of the Archive of the Department for Economic Recovery (DER - ORE) (Office de Récupération économique) and Legal Predecessor 1940-1968 (1997)

Inventory of the Service for the Control on the Export and Circulation of Certain Artworks 1946-1956

Inventory of the archival records of the Brüsseler Treuhandgesselschaft and Gruppe XII incuding the archives of the Service Belgique of the NSDAP Office for Colonial Policy 1899-1988 (mainly 1940-1963)

Cases

30 November 2022: Belgian government announces two provenance research initiatives

Belgium government initiatives

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Official Bodies and Reports

Brazil

Official Bodies and Reports

Non-Government Bodies

Research Resources

News Reports

Bulgaria

Official Bodies and Reports

Canada

Art Trade

Associations

Museums, Libraries and Archives

Guidelines

Official Bodies and Reports

Croatia

Official Bodies and Reports

Official Reports

Restitution of Movable Property in Croatia by Naida-Michal Brandl Zagreb, 2020

Archival Records

On the pilot project “Provenance of Museum Objects Confiscated During and After WWII” in Croatia, Muzeologija Journal issue 61 December 2024

Jewish Books in the National and University Library of Zagreb

Cyprus

Official Bodies and Reports

Czech Republic

Laws, Policies and Guidelines

Looted Cultural Property, Libraries and Archives

Museums, Libraries and Archives

Museums

Official Bodies and Reports

Art Report of Czech Government Commission 2000

Non-government Bodies

Jewish Gold and other Precious Metals, Precious Stones and Objects made of such Materials - Situation in the Czech Lands in the years 1939 to 1945

Research Resources

Art Historical Resources

Assistance for Claimants

Denmark

Official Bodies and Reports

Museums, Libraries and Archives

Estonia

Official Bodies and Reports

Research Resources

Finland

Official Bodies and Reports

Research Resources

Museums, Libraries and Archives

France

Art Trade

Archival Resources

2 April 2021: Wildenstein Plattner Institute adds three further digital archival collections

Wartime Art Trade

Laws, Policies and Guidelines

Looted Cultural Property

Museums, Libraries and Archives

Official Presentations, Reports and Speeches

Mission de recherche et de restitution des biens culturels spoliés entre 1933 et 1945 and its website

25 October 20222: Website of the French government 'Mission de recherche et de restitution des biens culturels spoliés entre 1933 et 1945'

Research Resources

1 January 2000: Guide des recherches dans les archives des spoliations et des restitutions

17 December 2020: Les spoliations d’œuvres d'art pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et leur restitution. Guide des recherches dans les archives

30 October 2023: Digitisation of the Commission de Récupération Artistique section of the French Diplomatic Archives

9 February 2022: Updated French chapter of the ERR Archival Guide: 'Reconstructing the Record of Nazi Cultural Plunder: A Guide to the Dispersed Archives of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) and the Postwar Retrieval of ERR Loot'

French libraries seized by the ERR (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg)

Art Historical Resources

Cases. Lawsuits and Restitutions

Georgia

Research Resources

Germany

Art Trade

Hugo Helbing auctions Munich 1885-1937 - Annotated catalogues

29 May 2020: ZADIK becomes part of the University of Cologne

9 October 2020: Three blog posts based on research into the Julius Böhler Archive

4 December 2020: Two new blog posts based on research into the Julius Böhler Archive

26 February 2021: Annotated catalogues of Hugo Helbing auctions Munich, 1885-1937, now available online

Previous Events and Conferences

Art Law in Germany March 2019

Guidelines

Policies

Political developments

Laws of Nazi Germany

Looted Cultural Property, Libraries and Archives

1 July 2020: Recommendation of the German Advisory Commission in the case of the heirs of A.B. v the Bavarian State Paintings Collections

Restitutions

24 June 2021: Germany restitutes 'Naples' by Rudolf von Alt to the heirs of Malvine Stern

Museums, Libraries and Archives

Archives

Records on Seizure and Restitution

Libraries

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich

Museums

25 February 2014: Foundation of Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste' (German Centre for Cultural Property)

Restitutions

Official Bodies and Reports

Art Commissions

German Advisory Commission (Beratende Kommission) on the return of cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution

Government Agencies

Arbeitsstelle für Provenienzrecherche/-forschung AfP) (Bureau for Provenance Investigation and Research)

German Centre for Cultural Property Losses - Stiftung Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste

Court of Arbitration for Nazi-Looted Cultural Property

Research Projects and Resources

Agents of Looting

2 September 2020: German Provenance Research Manual published in English

23 July 2020: New Holocaust Database: Reichsanzeiger (Revoked Citizenship and Property Seizures) 1933-1945

17 November 2020 Pilot project to digitise and analyse 42,000 Nazi-era files in the Brandenburg Main State Archive

Family History and Tracing Services

12 November 2021: Claims Conference/WJRO Statistical Review and Online Overview of the Gurlitt Trove

Gurlitt Case

Gurlitt Case Overview

Lawsuits

Gurlitt Task Force

Provenance Research Reports

Journals

Websites

Obituaries

14 October 2020: Obituary of Dr Stephan Kellner 1956-2020

Greece

Official Bodies and Reports

Research Resources

Archival Records

Hungary

Art Trade

Associations

Cases

Laws, Policies and Guidelines

Hungary Passes Law Enabling Recovery of Looted Works of Art in Its Public Collections 11 November 2013

Looted Cultural Property

Museums, Libraries and Archives

Museums: Looted Cultural Property

Official Bodies and Reports

Research Resources

Family Records and Tracing Services

Ireland

Museums, Libraries and Archives

National Gallery of Ireland Provenance Research 2017

Research Resources

Archival Collections

Israel

Family Records and Tracing Services

Looted Cultural Property, Libraries and Archives

Diaspora Treasures Project 2022-2023

Conferences

Israel to Step Up Restitution Efforts: Round Table 9 January 2014

Cultural Restitution and National Reconstruction: The Jewish Case after WWII, Conference, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 19 March 2014

Restitution Issues

'Provenance Research in Israel: The Silence of the Frames' by Niv Goldberg, 2025

Italy

Art Trade

Associated Organisations

Looted Cultural Property, Libraries and Archives

Restitution

Whereabouts unknown

Official Bodies and Reports

Intellectuals Displaced from Fascist Italy: Migrants, Exiles and Refugees Fleeing for Political and Racial Reasons

Websites

Museums, Libraries and Archives

Tokyo Fuji Art Museum restitutes Leonardo panel to Italy 27 November 2012

Japan

Museums, Libraries and Archives

Korea

Research Resources

Latvia

Official Bodies and Reports

Lithuania

Books and Publications

Official Bodies and Reports

Luxembourg

Official Bodies and Reports

Research Resources

Macedonia

Official Bodies and Reports

Research Resources

Netherlands

Events and Conferences

Looted Cultural Property, Libraries and Archives

Provenance Research in Dutch Museums

Dutch Centre of Expertise for the Restitution of Cultural Goods and the Second World War

July 2021: Digitisation of the Rijksmuseum Bulletin

31 March 2023: 'The Diary Keepers: Untold Stories of WWII in the Netherland' Nina Siegal in conversation

Dutch Restitution Policy - Reviews, Changes, Developments

Case News

Offical Publications and Newsletters

Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE) Newsletter

Art historical records and resources

Norway

Official Bodies and Reports

Research Resources

Bibliographies

Paraguay

Official Bodies and Reports

Reports

Poland

Looted Cultural Property, Libraries and Archives

Museums, Libraries and Archives

Museums

Official Bodies and Reports

Research Resources

Cases, Lawsuits and Restitutions

Portugal

Official Bodies and Reports

Romania

Official Bodies and Reports

Russia

Official Bodies and Reports

Restitution Internet Project (Internet Proekt Restitusiya)

Research Resources

Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts of the Moscow University Library (Otdel Redkikh Knig i Rukopiei)

Museums, Libraries and Archives

State Archive of Russian Federation (Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federazii-GARF)

M. I. Rudomino All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature (Vserossiiskaya Gosudarstevennaya Biblioteka Inostrannoi Lituratura- VGBIL)

Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (Rossiiskaia Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Lituratura i Iskusstva-RGALI)

Russian State Military Archive (Rossiiskii Gosudarstvenni Voennyi Arkhiv- RGVA)

The National Library of Russia (Rossiiskaia Natsional'naya Biblioteka)

The Russian State Library (Rossiiskaya Gosudarstvennaya Biblioteka)

Pushkin Museum in Moscow

Scientific and Education Center 'Holocaust'

The State Hermitage Museum

Looted Cultural Property in Russia

12 November 2021: Claims Conference/WJRO Translation of Listings by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation

Obituaries

1 December 2020: The Russian Bear has Died - An obituary of Irina Antonova

Slovakia

Official Bodies and Reports

Slovenia

Laws, Policies and Guidelines

Policies

Official Bodies and Reports

Research Resources

Spain

Official Bodies and Reports

Research Resources

Related Websites

Sweden

Art Trade

Wartime Art Trade

Official Bodies and Reports

Wartime Nazi Government Agencies

Research Resources

Switzerland

26 June 2024: Überprüfung der Provenienzforschung der Stiftung Sammlung E. G. Bührle Bericht von Prof. Dr. Raphael Gross

Archival Collections

Gurlitt collection at the Kunstmuseum Bern

Art Law in Switzerland March 2019

Turkey

Official Bodies and Reports

Ukraine

Official Body and Reports

United Kingdom

Laws, Policies and Guidelines

Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) Act 2009

UK Protection of Cultural Objects on Loan 2007

Consultation on Restitution of Objects Spoliated in the Nazi-Era 2006

Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) (Amendment) Act 2019

Policies

2017 London Conference Spoliation Action Plan

2 September 2024: Spoliation Advisory Panel Newsletter- Special Edition: The work of the European Restitution Committees- Conference Report

Guidelines

Restitution and Repatriation: A Practical Guide for Museums in England

Art Trade

Dealer Records

René Gimpel Archives

Claimant Information

Claims Bodies

Independent Bodies

Museums, Libraries and Archives

Museums

Immunity from Seizure

Associated Organisations

Guidelines

Official Bodies and Reports

Family Records and Tracing Services

4 March 2021: USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive now available at the Wiener Library London

UK Envoy on Post Holocaust Issues

Norman Palmer QC CBE

Research Projects

13 May 2020 Doctoral Partnership Grant ‘Jewish Collectors and Donors at the National Gallery’ (National Gallery London & University of Durham)

Cases

28 March 2023: Report of the Spoliation Advisory Panel in respect of the painting ‘La Ronde Enfantine’ by Gustave Courbet in the possession of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

United States

Art Trade