Recovered Memories
Conference of the CIVS – Commission for the Restitution of Property and the Compensation of Victims of Anti-Semitic Spoliations
United in the same network for five years, the commissions created in Germany, Austria, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom are implementing policies for the restitution of cultural property looted between 1933 and 1945 under the National Socialist regime.
On 26 June, cases of restitution will be presented, in the presence of the commissions that recommended them, the heirs of the victims of spoliation, and the provenance researchers involved. Among them is the case of the well-known French lawyer, journalist and politician Henry Torrès (1891–1966), whose book collection was confiscated by the National Socialists and never returned. 93 volumes from it were discovered by Dirk Naguschewski in the ZfL library in 2023.
Linguist and cultural critic Dirk Naguschewski is head of the ZfL knowledge transfer and communications department at ZfL, managing editor of the ZfL BLOG and the podcast Bücher im Gespräch.
