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AALDERS, Gerard. - De beroofde joden en het Nederlandse restitutiebeleid sinds 1945. - Amsterdam :
Boom, 2001. 464 p. - ISBN 90-5353-674-9.
AALDERS, Gerard. - Geraubt. Die Enteignung jüdischen Besitzes im Zweiten Weltkrieg. - Köln : Dittrich,
2000. - 435 p. - ISBN 3-920862-29-5.
AALDERS, Gerard. - Roof : de ontvreemding van Joods bezit tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. - Den Haag:
SDU, 1999. -331 p. - ISBN 90-12-08747-3.
ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE ASSESSMENT OF RESTITUTIONS APPLICATIONS FOR ITEMS OF
CULTURAL VALUE AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR (NETHERLANDS). – Annual reports. – The Hague.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS. TECHNICAL INFORMATION SERVICE. - Museum policy and
procedure for Holocaust-era issues. - Washington, D.C. : AAM, 2000. 120 p. - ISBN 0-931201-78-0.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS. - AAM Guidelines concerning the unlawful appropriation of
objects during the Nazi era.
http://www.aam-us.org/nazieraprov.htm
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS. - AAM recommended procedures for providing information to
the public about objects transferred in Europe during the Nazi era.
http://www.aam-us.org/nazieraprov.htm
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS. – Vitalizing memory: International perspectives on provenance
research / Introduction by Nancy H. Yeide. – Washington, D.C. : AAM, 2006. – 188 p. – ISBN 1-93325302-9.
ASSOCIATION OF ART MUSEUM DIRECTORS. - Report of the AAMD Task Force on the spoliation of art
during the Nazi/World War II era (1933-1945).
http://www.aamd.org/papers/guideln.php
BARESEL-BRAND, Andrea. - Verantwortung Wahrnehmen: NS-Raubkunst - Eine Herausforderung an
Museen, Bibliotheken und Archive = Taking responsibility: Nazi-looted art - a challenge for museums,
libraries and archives. – Magdeburg : Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluste Magdeburg, 2009. (Veröffentlichungen der Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluste ; 7). – ISBN 978-3-9811367-4-6.
BAZYLER, Michael J. - Holocaust justice: the battle for restitution in America's courts. - New York : New
York University Press, 2003. - 352 p., ill., bibl. - ISBN 0-81479903-5.
BONKE, A.J. - De herkomst van de aanwinsten van de Rotterdamse gemeentemusea 1940-1948. Rotterdam : Gemeente Rotterdam, 1998. - 10 p.
BRONGERS, D. and MAARSCHALKERWEERD, Ph. - Herkomst en restitutie : verslag van het onderzoek
naar de collectievorming van het Haags Gemeentemuseum voor en tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog en
de afwikkeling in de na-oorlogse jaren. - Den Haag : Gemeente Den Haag, Gemeentearchie, 1999. - 30 p.
BRÜCKLER, Theodor (ed.). - Kunstraub, Kunstbergung und Restitution in Österreich 1938 bis heute /
Beitrage von Theodor Bruckler, Gerhard Sailer, Kurt Haslinger, [et al.]. - Wien : Bohlau, 1999. - 478 p., ill.
- (Studien zu Denkmalschutz und Denkmalpflege ; 19) - ISBN 3-205-98926-0.
BUNDESAMT FÜR KULTUR. – Kulturgüter im Eigentum der Eidgenossenschaft : Untersuchung zum
Zeitraum 1933 bis 1945. - Bern : Bundesamt für Kultur, 1998. - VIII, 30 p.
BUOMBERGER, Thomas. – Raubkunst, Kunstraub : Die Schweiz und der Handel mit gestohlenen
Kulturgütern zur Zeit des Zweiten Weltkriegs / Hrsg. v. de. Bundesamt für Kultur (BAK) u. d. Nationalen
Informationssstelle für Kulturgüter-Erhatung (NIKE). - Zürich : Orell Füssli, 1998. - 496 p., ill. - ISBN 328002-807-8.
The Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945
http://www.lootedart.com/
CLAIMS CONFERENCE & WORLD JEWISH RESTITUTION ORGANIZATION (WJRO). – Nazi-era stolen art and
U.S. museums: a survey. – New York, NY : Claims Conference, 2006. – 45 p.
http://www.claimscon.org/forms/U.S._Museum_Survey_Report.pdf
COMMISSIE-EKKART (NETHERLANDS). – Herkomst gezocht. Rapport van het proefonderzoek naar de
herkomst van de onder beheer van het Rijk gebleven uit Duitsland gerecupereerde Kunstwerken. Rijswijk : Ministerie van OCenW ; Den Haag : Sdu-Servicecentrum, 1998. - ISBN 90-346-3563-5. (Also
available in English from the publisher)
COMMISSIE-EKKART (NETHERLANDS). – Herkomst gezocht: eindrapportage = Origins unknown: final
report. – Zwolle : Waanders Uitgevers, 2006. – 136 p. – ISBN 90-400-8348-7.
Commission for Art Recovery of the World Jewish Congress
http://www.comartrecovery.org/
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Commission indépendante d’experts Suisse – Seconde Guerre mondiale (CIE)
http://www.uek.ch/
EDSEL, Robert M. & WITTER, Bred. – The Monuments Men: Allied heroes, Nazi thieves and the greatest
treasure hunt in history. – New York, NY : Center Street, 2009. – xvi, 473 p.
EDSEL, Robert M. – Rescuing Da Vinci: Hitler and the Nazis stole Europe’s great art – America and her
allies recovered it / Forewords by Lynn H. Nicholas and Edmund P. Pillsbury. – Dallas, TX: Laurel
Publishing, 2006. – xvi, 302 p.
EIZENSTAT, Stuart E. - Imperfect justice : looted assets, slave labor, and the unfinished business of World
War II / Foreword by Elie Wiesel. - New York : Public Affairs, 2003. - 400 p. - ISBN 1-58648110-X.
EIZENSTAT, Stuart E. – Une justice tardive : spoliations et travail forcé, un bilan de la Seconde Guerre
mondiale / traduit de l’américain par Cécile Deniard ; préface de Elie Wiesel. – Paris : Éditions du Seuil,
2004. – 416 p. – (L’épreuve des faits). – ISBN 2-02-059156-1.
[Exposition. Jérusalem, Israel Museum. Paris, Musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme. 2008]. - À qui
appartenaient ces tableaux ? : la politique française de recherche de provenance, de garde et de
restitution des œuvres d'art pillées durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale = Looking for owners : French
policy for provenance research, restitution and custody of art stolen in France during World War Two
[exposition], Musée d'Israël, Jérusalem, 18 février-3 juin 2008, Musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme,
Paris, 24 juin-28 septembre 2008 / catalogue rédigé par Isabelle Le Masne de Chermont et Laurence
Sigal-Klagsbald. - Paris : Réunion des musées nationaux, 2008. - 225 p., ill., bibl., index. - ISBN 978-27118-5543-8 (br.)
FELICIANO, Hector. - The Lost museum: the Nazi conspiracy to steal the world's greatest works of art. New York : Basic Books, 1997. - ix, 278 p. - ISBN 0-465-04194-9.
FELICIANO, Hector. - Le musée disparu. - Paris : Editions Austral, 1995. - 250 p., ill., index. - ISBN 284112-035-X.
FREHNER, Matthias. - Das Geschäft mit der Raubkunst: Fakten, Thesen, Hintergründe. - Zürich : Verlag
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 1998. - 152 p. - ISBN 3-85823-705-1.
GOSCHLER, Constantin ; THER, Philipp et ANDRIEU, Claire (dir.). - Spoliations et restitutions des biens
juifs : Europe XXe siècle. – Paris : Autrement, 2007. – 416 p. – (Collection Mémoires Histoire ; 135). –
ISBN 978-2-7467-0918-8.
HARCLERODE, P. and PITTAWAY, B. - The Lost masters : the looting of Europe's treasureshouses. London: Gollancz, 1999. - xiv, 402 p. - ISBN 0-575-05254-6.
Herkomst gezocht = Origins unknown
http://www.herkomstgezocht.nl/
HOOGEWOUD, F.J. & LEISTRA, J.E.P. (eds.). - The Return of looted collections (1946-1996): an unfinished
chapter: Proceedings of an international symposium to mark the 50th anniversary of the return of Dutch
book collections from Germany in 1946, Amsterdam, 15-16 April 1996. – Amsterdam : Stichting Beheer
IISG, 1997. - 120 p. - ISBN 90-6861-1364.
HOREL, Catherine. – La restitution des biens juifs et le renouveau juif en Europe centrale : Hongrie,
Slovaquie, République tchèque. – Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2002. – 211 p., ill., bibl. - (Wiener
Osteuropa Studien ; 13). – ISBN 3-631-38623-0 ; ISSN 0946-7246.
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KOWALSKI, Wojciech W. - Art treasures and war. - London : Institute of Art and Law, 2000. - 170 p. -ISBN
0-953-1696-3-4.
KOWALSKI, Wojciech W. - Liquidation of the effects of World War II in the area of culture. - Warsaw :
Institute of Culture, 1994. - 115 p., ill. - ISBN 83-85323-81-3.
MISSION D'ÉTUDE SUR LA SPOLIATION DES JUIFS DE FRANCE. - Mission d'étude sur la spoliation des Juifs
de France : rapport général. - Paris : La Documentation française, 2000. 208 p. - ISBN 2-11-004589-2.
MISSION D'ÉTUDE SUR LA SPOLIATION DES JUIFS DE FRANCE. - Le pillage de l'art en France pendant
l'occupation et la situation des 2000 œuvres confiées aux Musées nationaux / réd. par Isabelle Le Masne
de Chermont et Didier Schulmann. - Paris : La Documentation française, 2000. - 136 p. - ISBN 2-11004563-9.
MISSION D'ÉTUDE SUR LA SPOLIATION DES JUIFS DE FRANCE. - Guide des recherches dans les archives
des spoliations et des restitutions / Caroline Piketty, Christophe Dubois et Fabrice Launay. - Paris : La
Documentation française, 2000. - 318 p. - ISBN 2-11-004477-2.
MULLER, Eelke. - Rapport Museale Verwervingen 1940-1948. - Amsterdam : Nederlandse
Museumvereniging, Commissie Museale Verwergingen, 2000. - 224 p. (In Dutch, two-page summary in
English).
NICHOLAS, Lynn. - The Rape of Europa: the fate of Europe's treasures in the Third Reich and the Second
World War. - London : Macmillan, 1994. - x, 498 p. - ISBN 0-333-62652-4.
Onderzoeksgids Oorlogsgetroffenen WO2: terugkeer, opvang, nasleep
http://www.oorlogsgetroffenen.nl/
PALMER, Norman. - Museums and the Holocaust. - London : Institute of Art and Law, 2000. - 322 p. ISBN 0-953-1696-5-0.
PERRY, Victor. – Stolen art. – Hewlett, NY : Gefen Publishing House, 2000. – 240 p.
Pillages et restitutions : le destin des œuvres d’art sorties de France pendant la Seconde Guerre
mondiale : actes du colloque organisé par la Direction des musées de France le 17 novembre 1996 à
l’amphithéâtre de Rohan de l’École du Louvre. – Paris : Direction des musées de France ; Éditions Adam
Biro, 1997. – 191 p.
Proceedings on the Washington conference on Holocaust-era assets
http://www.state.gov/www/regions/eur/holocaust/heac.html
REISEL, Berit and BRULAND, Bjarte. - The Reisel/Bruland report on the confiscation of Jewish property in
Norway during the War. Oslo, 1997. - 125 p. (Part of Official Norwegian Report, No. 22, June 1997).
SIMPSON, Elizabeth (ed.). - The Spoils of War: World War II and its aftermath. The loss, reappearance,
and recovery of cultural property. - New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1997. - 336 p. - ISBN 08-109-4469-3.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Provenance in the World War II Era, 1933-1945.
http://provenance.si.edu/jsp/index.aspx
YEIDE, Nancy H. and AKINSHA, Konstantin. - The AAM guide to provenance research. - Washington, D.C. :
AAM, 2001. - 304 p. - ISBN 0-931201-73-X.
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Periodicals and Articles / Périodiques et articles / Periódicos y artículos
AKINSHA, K. and KOZLOV, G. - "Spoils of War: the Soviet Union's hidden art treasures", in Art News, Vol.
90, No. 4, April 1991, p. 130-141.
ANGLADE, Leila. - "Art, law and the Holocaust: the French situation", in Art, Antiquity and Law, London,
IAL, Kluwer, Vol. 4, No. 4, 1999, p. 301-311.
ANGLIM KREDER, Jennifer. - "The choice between civil and criminal remedies in stolen art litigation", in
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, No. 38, October 2005.
http://law.vanderbilt.edu/publications/journal-of-transnational-law/index.aspx
Art, Antiquity and Law /The Institute of Art and Law. – Vol. 1, No. 1, 1996 - Present . - Quarterly.
http://www.ial.uk.com/
BAILEY, Martin. - "Growing evidence that Göring seized National Gallery’s Cranach from its pre-war
owner", in The Art Newspaper, London, Vol. XVI, No. 176, January 2007, p. 8-9, ill.
BAILEY, Martin. – "Nazi painting in Maritime Museum is British loot: The work was seized from a German
naval academy in 1945", in The Art Newspaper, London, Vol. XVI, No. 176, January 2007, p. 1, 8.
BÔLE-RICHARD, Michel. - "Il est important de favoriser la restitution", in Le Monde, Paris, Année 64, No.
19618, 19 février 2008, p. 3.
BREITKOPF, Susan. – "Progress report: 'Time is not on our side'", in Museum News, Washington, D.C.,
AAM, Vol. 85, No. 5, Sept./Oct. 2006, p. 13-16.
BURRIS, Donald S. & SCHOENBERG , E. Randol. - "Reflections on litigating holocaust stolen art cases",
Symposium: International Legal Dimensions of Art and Cultural Property, in Vanderbilt Journal of
Transnational Law, No. 38, October 2005, p. 1041-1049.
COLLINS, Pauline McCarter. - "Has the lost museum been found? Declassification of Government
documents and report on holocaust assets offer real opportunity to do justice for holocaust victims on
the issue of nazi-looted art", in University of Western Australia Law Review , March 2002.
DAGEN, Philippe : ROUX, Emmanuel (de) & BÔLE-RICHARD, Michel. - "Tableaux cherchent propriétaires :
des œuvres pillées par les nazis pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, retrouvées en Allemagne, mais
qui restent aujourd’hui ‘orphelines’, sont exposées à Jérusalem, puis à Paris", in Le Monde, Paris, Année
64, No. 19618, 19 février 2008, p. 3.
FELICIANO, Hector. - "Plunder storms: the dilemma of war and stolen art", in Museum News,
Washington, D.C., AAM, Vol. 77, No. 2, March/April 1998, p. 36-37, 67.
GIOVANNINI, Teresa. - "The Holocaust and looted art", in Art, Antiquity and Law, Leicester, Institute of
Art and Law, Vol. 7, No. 3, Sept. 2002.
JASKOT, Paul. – "The politics of plunder", in Museum News, Washington, D.C., AAM, Vol. 87, No. 1,
Jan./Feb. 2008, p. 27-29, 74-75.
Le Journal des Arts, Paris
http://www.artclair.com/
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KOWALSKI, Wojciech W. - "The Machinery of Nazi art looting. The Nazi law on the confiscation of
cultural property. Poland: a case study", in Art, Antiquity and Law, London, Institute of Art and Law,
Kluwer, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2000, p. 217-231.
LUFKIN, Martha. - Why Nazi-loot ceased being 'stolen' when US Forces seized it in Austria: the federal
'Schiele' case, in Art, Antiquity and Law, London, Institute of Art and Law, Kluwer, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2000, p.
305-317.
LUFKIN, Martha B.G. - "Whistling past the graveyard isn't enough: US may seek to confiscate painting
lent by Austrian museum which allegedly knew it was nazi loot", in Art, Antiquity and Law, Leicester,
Institute of Art and Law, Vol. 7, No. 3, Sept. 2002.
McDERMOTT, Jennifer. - "The work of the Spoliation Advisory Panel", in Keeping up with Art and
Cultural Assets, London, Withers Bergman, Winter 2007/8, p. 5-7.
PALMER, Norman. - "Museums and the Holocaust: the futility of litigation", in Art, Antiquity and Law,
London, Institute of Art and Law, Kluwer, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2000, p. 233-250.
REDMOND-COOPER, Ruth. - "Limitations of actions in art and antiquity claims. Part II: The position of
Nazi-looted art", in Art, Antiquity and Law, London, Institute of Art and Law, Kluwer, Vol. 5, No. 2, June
2000, p. 202-204.
Spoils of War, international newsletter / Koordinierungsstelle der Länder für die Rückführung von
Kulturgütern beim Kultusministerium des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt = Coordination Office of the Federal
States for the Return of Cultural Property. - Magdeburg, Germany, 1995-2003. - ISSN 1435-6325.
The Art Newspaper, London.
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/
THOMAS, Sharne. - "Spoliation of works of art during the Holocaust and World War II period: a
commentary on the National Museum Directors' Conference first progress report on provenance
research for the period 1933-1945", in Art, antiquity and law, London, Institute of Art and Law, Kluwer,
Vol. 5, No. 1, March 2000, p. 81-96, notes.
VALENTIN, Pierre. – "The restitution of nazi looted art: the moral argument", in Keeping up with Art and
Cultural Assets, London, Withers, Spring 2005, p. 5-6.
WEIL, Stephen E. - "The American legal response to the problem of Holocaust art", in Art, Antiquity and
Law, London, Institute of Art and Law, Kluwer, Vol. 4, No. 4, Dec. 1999, p. 285-300, notes.
YEIDE, Nancy H. - "Behind the lines: lessons in Nazi-era provenance research", in Museum News,
Washington, D.C., AAM, Vol. 79, No. 6, Nov./Dec. 2000, p. 50-53, 56-59, ill.
"Zur Provenienzdebatte: Schicksale, Politik, Forschung", in Art value, Positionen zum Wert der Kunst,
Berlin, Welther Verlag, 2009, Vol. 3, No. 4, 2009, p. 20-57, 80-85.
Revised in September 2010 / Revue en septembre 2010 / Revisada en septiembre de 2010
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