Conference: "Jewish Cultural Treasures in Europe after the Holocaust.
Restitution and Relocation"
To conclude the exhibition "Looting and Restitution. Jewish Owned Cultural Artifacts from 1933 to the Present," the Jewish Museum Berlin has been organizing an international conference on the variations from country to country in the legal and political requirements for the restitution of cultural artifacts. The conferences has focused on the handling of looted Jewish cultural artifacts in the early postwar years. The conference was held in English.
Download program (PDF, 60 KB, Status on January 22, 2009) or see below.
When: Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 January 2009, 10 am to 6.30 pm
Where: Jewish Museum Berlin, Lindenstr. 9-14, 10969 Berlin, Old Building, Concert Hall on second level
Admission: free
Programm (Status on January 22, 2009)
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PANEL I
CONFRONTING LOOTING AND DESTRUCTION: NEW STRATEGIES
10.00 Introduction
Inka Bertz, Jewish Museum Berlin
10.30 Reconstructing Jewish Cultural Landscapes – The "Tentative Lists" Project 1944–1948
Elisabeth Gallas, Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at Leipzig University
11.15 Hashavat Avedah: JCR, Inc. and the Rescue of Heirless Jewish Cultural Property After WW II
Dana Herman, Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati
12.00 Lunch Break
PANEL II
GERMANY AND AUSTRIA
13.30 To Whom Do the Jewish Cultural Treasures Belong after 1945? Conflict of Interests in the City of Frankfurt am Main
Katharina Rauschenberger, Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main
14.15 The Situation in Berlin
Ruth Recknagel, Former Judge on the Berlin Kammergericht, Director of the Berlin Office of Restitution until 2004
15:00 Displaced on Three Continents. The Fate of the Material Heritage of the Jewish Community in Vienna
Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Jewish Museum Vienna
15.45 Coffee Break
PANEL III
EAST CENTRAL EUROPE I
16.15 Re/con/stituting Memory: Restitution of Jewish-Owned Cultural Assets in the Czech Republic
Michaela Sidenberg, Jewish Museum in Prague
17.00 Dealing with the Jewish Cultural Assets in Post-War Poland
Nawojka Cieslinska-Lobkowicz, Art Historian and Provenance Researcher, Warsaw/Munich
17.45 The Jewish Historical Institute as a Repository for Jewish Cultural Treasures in Poland
Eleonora Bergman, Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw
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PANEL IV
WESTERN EUROPE
10.00 A Matter of Conscience? Legal and Moral Aspects of Dutch Restitution Policy
Julie Marthe Cohen, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
10.45 The Fate of Jewish-Owned Cultural Treasures in Paris and in France
Laurence Sigal, Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme, Paris
11.30 Looted Jewish Art and Cultural Properties in Italy. The Difficult Restitution and Compensation after 1945
Paola Bertilotti, Sciences-Po, Paris / Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon
12.15 Lunch Break
PANEL V
EAST CENTRAL EUROPE II
13.45 Lviv 1944 – Now. Jewish Cultural Objects and Property. Some Cases and Tendencies
Tarik Cyril Amar, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv
14.30 Restitution Issues in Post-War Romania
Hildrun Glass, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
15.15 "Disappeared?" The Fate of Jewish-Owned Cultural Artifacts in Hungary after 1945
Eszter Gantner, ELTE University of Budapest – Center for Central European German Jewish Culture
16.00 Final Discussion: Open Questions, Ongoing Controversies
Download program (PDF, 60 KB, Status on January 22, 2009).
When: Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 January 2009, 10 am to 6.30 pm
Where: Jewish Museum Berlin, Lindenstr. 9-14, 10969 Berlin, Old Building, Concert Hall on second level
Admission: free