News
The CIVS welcomes the partner commissions of its European network
On 5 April, the CIVS receives the representatives of the commissions in Europe who, like it, are working on the research and restitution of the cultural property looted.
The Symposium on looted art in Bonn on 20 and 21 February
See the Symposium Program here
Establishment of a Network of European Restitution Committees
The CIVS, which celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2019, will manage the Network during its first year.
New attributions for the CIVS
A decree of 1 October modified the assignen of the CIVS, conferring on it new prerogatives for stolen works of art.
Report CIVS 2017
The 2017 activity report has just been published.
The Senate conductes a review of the action of the CIVS
On June 6, Senator Marc Laménie presented on behalf of the Senate Finance Committee an information report on the review of 20 years of acitvity of CIVS.
On the recommendation of the CIVS, the city of Sannois (95) will restore a rifled Utrillo
The city of Sannois (Val-d’Oise) will restore the painting on canvas of Utrillo, Carrefour Sannois, stolen in 1940. This is what decided the municipality on the recommendation of the Commission for the Compensation of Victims of Spoliation resulting from the Anti-Semitic Legislation in Force during the Occupation.
A mediation of the CIVS allows the restitution by Switzerland of a stolen work of art
Monday, March 12 th, the Museum of Fine Artsof La Chaux-de-Fonds returned a stolen work of art. The mediation of the Commission for the compensation of victims of spoliations has found a way out to ten years a standoff between the Swiss municipality and the rights holders.
Claims Extends Hardship Fund Benefit to Jews in Algeria
Since 1 February, Jews who resided in Algeria between July 1940 and November 1942 and who have been victims of the anti - Semitic persecutions of the Vichy regime are eligible for payment from the Hardship Fund of the Claims Conference.
CIVS and the embassador of France in Germany meet the Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste
On January 17, 2018, a CIVS delegation traveled to Magdeburg, capital of the Land of Saxony-Anhalt, in order to meet the Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste to lay the groundwork for future cooperation between the two services.
