It's a busy week for me. I'm hoping to finish a rewrite of my earlier post about Der Watzman sometime soon, but I thought in the meantime I'd link to the Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluste (English language page):
The Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluste is Germany’s central office for the documentation of lost cultural property. Its main task is to register and document search requests and found-object reports about cultural objects taken from their owner(s) in connection with Nazi persecution or relocated as a result of the Second World War. Publication on the Internet makes it possible to search for these objects and the circumstances of their loss world-wide. In this way, the Office seeks to assist the locating and identification of these objects and to facilitate their return.
The site includes a searchable database which "contains data on cultural objects which as a result of Nazi persecution or the direct consequences of the Second World War were removed and relocated, stored or seized from their owners, particularly Jews, or on cultural objects where, because of gaps in their provenance, such a story of loss cannot be ruled out as a possibility."
Posted by Heather at April 5, 2004 08:55 PM
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