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Art and cultural repatriation after World War II

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Lady with an Ermine

painting by Leonardo da Vinci

2014 film by George Clooney

Załuski Library

library in Warsaw

The Woman in Gold

2015 film directed by Simon Curtis

Filed successful lawsuit against government of Austria for return of family artwork plundered by the Nazis (1916–2011)

Ossoliński National Institute

Ossoliński National Institute (, ZNiO), or the Ossolineum is a Polish cultural foundation, publishing house, archival institute and a research centre of national significance founded in 1817 in Lwów (now Lviv). Located in the city of Wrocław since 1947, it is the second largest institution of its kind in Poland after the ancient Jagiellonian Library in Kraków. Its publishing arm is the oldest continuous imprint in Polish since the early 19th century. It bears the name of its founder, Polish nobleman, Count Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński (1748-1826).

Priam's Treasure

artifacts found by classical archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann

German General of Mountain Troops (1889–1967)

Five Days, Five Nights

1961 film by Lev Arnshtam, Heinz Thiel

Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program

Allied program in the US to help protect cultural property (1943-1946)

Hildebrand Gurlitt

German art dealer authorized by Third Reich to sell looted art, historian

August Liebmann Mayer

German Jewish art historian (1885-1944), murdered in the Holocaust

art collection including some Nazi loot discovered in the Munich apartments of Cornelius Gurlitt in 2012

Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki

painting by Jacques-Louis David

Guelph Treasure

remains of a medieval treasure split in 1929, 40 pieces of which are displayed in Berlin

Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property

UNESCO convention

The Man Outside

1947 play by Wolfgang Borchert

Jacques Goudstikker

Dutch Jewish art dealer refugee whose collection was seized by Nazis (1897–1940)

Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art

statement concerning the restitution of art confiscated by the Nazi regime in Germany

symphony composed by Aram Khachaturian

Hungarian Gold Train

german-operated train during World War II

German Jewish Canadian art dealer, persecuted by the Nazis (1904–1987)

Romanian Treasure

collection of valuables sent to Russia during World War I

Henri Hinrichsen

German music publisher, died in Auschwitz in 1942

Isaac de Jouderville

painter (1612-1645)

UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects

American architect (1911–1997)

viennese art collector murdered in the Holocaust (1862–1941)

Friedrich Gutmann

Dutch Jewish art collector, murdered in the Holocaust (1886-1944)