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Holocaust-Era Assets
The Holocaust-Era Assets web pages provide a better understanding of the record holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) relating to the looting, locating, recovering, and restituting Holocaust-Era assets. Substantive research interest in Holocaust-Era Assets began in 1996 with various issues related to and gold lSwiss dormant bank accountsooted by Nazi Germany. Within several years interests expanded to include, among other things, looted cultural property (including books, archives, manuscripts, and Jewish communal property), looted art works, unpaid and unclaimed insurance policies and issues surrounding slave and forced labor.We responded to researcher interests by compiling and publishing a finding aid to relevant records at the National Archives at College Park and working with art provenance researchers to identify and microfilm key series of records. We also became actively involved in the implementation of the Nazi War Crimes Records Disclosure Act of 1998. This law required Federal agencies, including NARA, to review and recommend for declassification records relating to Nazi war crimes, Nazi war criminals, Nazi persecution, and Nazi looted assets. Overseeing this activity was The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group ( IWG).
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International Resources for Holocaust-Era Assets Research
International Research Portal for Records
Related to Nazi-Era Cultural Property
The International Research Portal is a collaboration of national and
other archival institutions with records that pertain to Nazi-Era
cultural property. These archival institutions, along with expert
national and international organizations, are working together to extend
public access to the widely-dispersed records through this single
internet Portal. The Portal enables families to research their losses;
provenance researchers to locate important documentation; and historians
to study newly accessible materials on the history of this period. This
collaborative project was established to fulfill the objectives of the 1998 Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art, the 2000 Vilnius Forum Declaration and the 2009 Terezin Declaration, particularly to make all such records publicly accessible.The Portal links researchers to archival materials consisting of descriptions of records and, in many cases, digital images of the records that relate to cultural property that was stolen, looted, seized, forcibly sold, or otherwise lost during the Nazi era. These records, which are in many different languages, include Nazi documentation, governmental records from 1933 onwards, inventories of recovered artworks, post-war claims records and auction house and art dealer records. Cultural property documented in these records covers a broad range from artworks to books and libraries, religious objects, antiquities, archival documents, carvings, silver and more.
Each link below directs users to descriptions of the relevant records available at each participating institution and provides information on accessing the records. Also included are further links to finding aids and digitized records, as available. All descriptions within the Portal are provided in English. As you click through the Portal to affiliated websites, the descriptions are written in the national language of each institution, and in some instances, are available in English, as well.
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