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Background, Documentation, Law and Research

Use these online resources for additional information on World War II era provenance issues, documentation, history, laws, policies, and research. These links include the American Association of Museums Nazi-Era Provenance Portal, the AAM and AAMD guidelines and related material, and independent and governmental Web sites that address World War II / Nazi-era cultural property policies and background records and documentation on restitution efforts after 1945.

American Association of Museums

Nazi-Era Provenance Portal

new browser window http://www.nepip.org/

Guidelines Concerning the Unlawful Appropriation of Objects During the Nazi Era

new browser window http://www.aam-us.org/museumresources/ethics/nazi_guidelines.cfm

Association of Art Museum Directors

Guidelines

new browser window http://www.aamd.org/papers/guideln.php

United States Government Resources

Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States

new browser window http://www.holocaustassets.gov/

United States Department of State

new browser window http://www.state.gov/www/regions/eur/holocausthp.html

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

new browser window http://www.ushmm.org/assets/

United States National Archives and Records Administration, Holocaust-Era Records, Assets, and Research

new browser window http://www.archives.gov/research_room/holocaust_era_assets/index.html

Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-confiscated Art

new browser window http://www.state.gov/www/regions/eur/981203_heac_art_princ.html

Other

Archives of American Art

new browser window http://artarchives.si.edu

The Commission for Looted Art in Europe (ECLA)

new browser window http://www.lootedartcommission.com/

Getty Research Institute

new browser window http://www.museum-security.org/Holocaust-Era-Assets.htm

Memorial de la Shoah, Musee Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine

new browser window http://www.memorial-cdjc.org/

United Nations International Committee on Museum (ICOM) Spoliation of Jewish Property

new browser window http://icom.museum/spoliation.html

World Jewish Congress

new browser window http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/default.html

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