Anne Webber for the Commission for Looted Art
Monday 16th February 2009 at 7.45PM
ARE YOU AWARE THAT THE NAZIS WERE MASTERS AT STEALING ART FROM JEWISH COLLECTORS AND DEALERS?
In 2008 the Commission for Looted Art in Europe negotiated the restitution from the Israel Museum Jerusalem of three gold-glass bases dating from the fourth century AD to the heirs of the Dzia?y?ska Collection at Go?uchów Castle in Poland. The gold-glass bases were seized by the Nazis in 1941 and their location was unknown to the family for over 60 years.
Join us to find out more from our speaker Anne Webber founder and co-chair of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, the non-profit expert international body set up in 1999 to identify, trace and recover cultural property looted by the Nazis from families and communities throughout Europe between 1933 and 1945.
Anne is Director of the Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property, a research body of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. The Central Registry includes a database of over 25,000 missing objects and original research and information from over 45 countries.
Where: in the Bloomstein Hall, Western Marble Arch Synagogue, 32 Great Cumberland Place, London, W1H 7TN
Admission: by payment at the door - students £5.00, members £8.00, non-members £10.00. Includes refreshments
To reserve your place email: marion@mppr.me.ukor phone 020 7723 9333 or pay at the door.