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Commission for the Compensation of Victims of Spoliation
Resulting from the Anti-Semitic Legislation in Force during the Occupation

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This page lists historic documents, reports, legal texts and even speeches (available in PDF format) relating to the history of anti-Semitic spoliation and compensation procedures.

Historic documents

THE DEMARCATION LINE

Reports

Court of Accounts conclusions, 2011 (in French)

ELEMENTS OF REFLECTION ON COMPENSATION FOR WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF JEWS DEPORTED FROM FRANCE (in French)

Memorandum, Bouchoux, Spoliated cultural works and works of uncertain provenance and public museums: overview and prospects, 2013 (in French)

Report entitled VETERANS, MEMORY AND LINKS WITH THE NATION (in French)

Report by the group of experts responsible for compiling a list of Jewish people from Monaco arrested and deported during World War II, 2015 (in France)

Report by the National Assembly on the management of museum resources and reserves, 13 January 2015 (in French)

THE SPOLIATION OF JEWISH PROPERTY IN LUXEMBURG 1940-1945 (in French)

Rapport d'information de la Commission des Finances du Sénat 2018 : La commission d'indemnisation des victimes de spoliations antisémites : vingt ans après, redonner un élan à la politique de réparation (in French)

Legal texts

Agreement of 24 November 2014 between the Federal Republic of Germany, the Free State of Bavaria and the foundation of the Bern Museum of Fine Arts (in French)

Agreement between the Free State of Bavaria, the Federal Government and Cornelius Gurlitt (in English)

Terezin Declaration of 30 June 2009 (in French)

Principles of the Washington Conference applicable to works of art confiscated by the Nazis, 3 December 1998 (in French)

Council of Europe's Resolution 1205, 4 November 1999 (in French)

Other documents

France’s new organisation for the restitution of cultural property spoliated due to national socialism

Holocaust-Era Looted Art: A Current World-Wide Overview, CLAIMS Conference, 10 September 2014 (in English)

Speech given by President of the Republic François Hollande at the inauguration of the Drancy Shoah Memorial on Friday 21 September 2012 (in French)

Speech given by Aurélie Filippetti, Minister for Culture and Communication, at the restitution to the heirs of Mr Richard Neumann and Mr Josef Wiener of seven paintings spoliated by the Nazi regime in Paris on Tuesday 19 March 2013 (in French)