RECOVERY AND COMPENSATION REPAYMENT

Anita Halpern recovered her ancestor's artwork after returning the compensation: See my blogpost THE CASE FOR RESTITUTION

Marilyn Henry is a writer who unravels the most complex aspects of Holocaust restitution in a straightforward way.

In her OPINION   for the Jerusalem Post she offers the art world a source for deeper provenance checking- the records of compensation data belonging to the German government.

These official  German claimant records reflect those artworks that were lost and for which compensation was (in most cases)  granted.

So isn’t this a “case closed” scenario?

NO. Owners who are alive or their heirs may still have rights to them, since the taint of theft has never been erased.

 

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