Links

The following list of links is designed to serve as an auxiliary resource for provenance research.

Switzerland

• Independent Commission of Experts Switzerland – Second World War (ICE)
  Independent Commission of Experts Switzerland – Second World War (ICE) An expert committee acting on the mandate of the Swiss Federal Parliament which looked into the question of cultural assets reaching Switzerland around the time of the Second World War.

• Swiss Federal Archives (SFA)
  Swiss Federal Archives (SFA) Custodian of records and documents of the Swiss Confederation having archival value.

• Classified Compilation of Swiss Federal Law (CC)
  Classified Compilation of Swiss Federal Law (CC) A collection of valid decrees, international treaties and resolutions, agreements between the federal government and the cantons and the constitutions of the Swiss cantons.

• Schweizerischer Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung
  Verein von Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern, die in der Provenienzforschung in der Schweiz oder mit Bezug zur Schweiz tätig sind. Ziele des Vereins sind die Einbindung der Provenienzforschung in die Museumspolitik und die Sensibilisierung der Öffentlichkeit, der Gedächtnisinstitutionen und des Kunstmarkts für diese Thematik.

International conferences and agreements

• Washington Principles, 3 December 1998

  PDF13.06 kB31 December 2010

• Resolution 1205 of the Council of Europe, 1999
  Council of Europe This Resolution of the Council of Europe dated 5 November 1999 relates to the restitution of stolen Jewish cultural assets.

• Declaration of Vilnius, 5 October 2000

• Declaration of Terezin, 2009

  PDF243.72 kB28 February 2022

• Draft UNESCO Declaration of Principles Relating to Cultural Objects Displaced in Connection with the Second World War, 2009
  UNESCO Switzerland took an active part in the drafting of this document, and is committed to the priorities established by the Principles of the Washington Conference of 1998. At the present time, it is for the General Conference of UNESCO to decide on how to proceed further.

Institutions under public law (international institutions)

• Commission pour l'indemnisation des victimes de spoliations intervenues du fait des législations antisémites pendant l'Occupation
• Deutsches Zentrum für Kulturgutverluste
• European Shoah Legacy Institute
• Holocaust-Era Assets
• Kommission für Provenienzforschung und Kuntstrückgabebeirat, Österreich
• Restitutiecommissie, Niederlande
• Spoliation Advisory Panel
• Staatsminister für Kultur und Medien der Deutschen Bundesregierung

University institutes (international)

• 'Degenerate Art' Research Center
• Arbeitsgruppe Sowjetische Kulturgüter
• Documentation Centre of Property Transfers of Cultural Assets of WW II. Victims

Private institutions and organizations (international)

• American Society of International Law / Cultural Heritage and the Arts
• Commission for Art Recovery
• Commission for Looted Art in Europe (CLAE)
• Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference)
• Holocaust Art Restitution Project
• ICOM Recommendations concerning the Return of Works of Art Belonging to Jewish Owners, 1999
• ICOM Spoliation of Jewish Cultural Property
• Verein Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung

The above list is not exhaustive. [e-mail] may be notified of any relevant website that has not been included. The Federal Office of Culture FOC offers no warranty in respect of the content of the web pages listed here.