Kronika: Budoucnost ztraceného dědictví. Dokumentace, identifikace a restituce kulturních statků obětí druhé světové války
Chronicle: The Future of a Lost Legacy: The Documentation, Identifi cation, and Restitution of Art and Antiques of Victims of the Second World War

Summary/Abstract: This is a report on the second international scholarly conference organized by the Centre for the Documentation of Transferred Cultural Assets during the Second World War, which is part of the Institute of Contemporary History, Prague. The conference, which was held in Česky Krumlov, 22–24 November 2005, had six panels covering the following topics: international collaboration in identifying confi scated and lost works of art; key problems related to research into these objects and restitution; books as a wrongly neglected aspect of confi scation and booty; artwork databases; research centres and institutions searching for lost and looted art; and successes in looking for artworks and returning them to their original owners or heirs of those owners. The author of the report describes the individual papers and some of the contributions to the discussion, as presented by participants from the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Croatia, Great Britain, and the USA.

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