Restitution Programs Provided by the Republic of Austria Sunday, June 28 • Greg Schneider, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, USA Opening Plenary Session 9.00–9.30 Providing Sustainable Funding for the Social Welfare CZ | EN (PCC, South Hall) of Holocaust Survivors Chair: • Miloš Pojar, Chairman of the Conference Organizing WG Holocaust Education, Remembrance Committee, Czech Republic and Research (PCC, Meeting Hall I) “Holocaust Education: Experiences Opening Remarks: Gained and Challenges Ahead” • Štefan Füle, Minister for European Affairs, Czech Republic Chair: • Stuart Eizenstat, Head of the US Delegation, • David Marwell, Museum of Jewish Heritage, USA former Deputy Treasury Secretary and Under Secretary of State, USA • Wolf Kaiser, House of the Wannsee Conference, Germany • Tom Eric Vraalsen, Chairman, Task Force for Overview of the Field of Education International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research, Norway • Natalia Rykova, Moscow Bureau for Human Rights, Russia 10.00–11.30 Concurrent Expert Sessions I Education about the Holocaust in Russia • Nancy Petschek-Kohn, Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center, USA Special Session: Caring for Victims Holocaust Education over the Past 10 Years of Nazism and Their Legacy (PCC, Conference Hall) CZ | EN WG Immovable Property (Private and “History and Perspective of Care Communal) (PCC, Meeting Hall IV) Support Provided to Victims of “Overview and Political Context” Nazism and Their Legacy” Chair: Chair: • Nigel Ross, World Jewish Relief, United Kingdom • Tomáš Kosta, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic • Tomáš Kraus, Federation of Jewish Communities, Czech Republic • Władysław Bartoszewski, Chancellery of the Prime Opening Remarks Minister, Poland • Andrew Baker, American Jewish Committee, USA Remembrance and Responsibility Review of Political Commitments • Jiří Šitler, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Czech • Herbert Block, World Jewish Restitution Republic Organization, USA History of International Discussions on Compensations Status Report on Communal Property to Victims of Nazism as Seen by Delegations Representing Central and Eastern European Countries • Gideon Taylor, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, USA • Günter Saathoff, Remembrance, Responsibility and Overview of the Restitution Process Future Foundation, Germany Political Importance and Administration of the • Moshe Sanbar, Center of Holocaust Survivors, Financial Compensation Process According to the Law Israel on the Creation of the Foundation "Remembrance, Property Restitution from Jewish Perspective Responsibility and Future“ • Hannah M. Lessing, General Settlement Fund and National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism, Austria Holocaust Era Assets Conference WG Looted Art (PCC, South Hall) CZ | EN 11.30–11.45 Coffee Break “Legal Issues” 11.45–13.15 Concurrent Expert Sessions II Chair: • Charles A. Goldstein, Commission for Art Recovery, USA Special Session: Caring for Victims of Nazism and Their Legacy • Olaf S. Ossmann, IAJLJ, Germany One collection, one persecution, one decision – but (PCC, Conference Hall) CZ | EN different ideas of "Just and Fair Solutions" – hurdles in “Responsibility in Partnership: different national processes for heirs of art collections Improving the Social Situation • Raymond J. Dowd, Dunnington Bartholow and of the Victims of Nazism” Miller LLP, USA Fritz Grunbaum’s Stolen Art Collection: Legal Chair: Obstacles to Recovery • Martin Salm, “Remembrance, Responsibility and • Marc-André Renold, The University of Geneva, Future” Foundation, Germany Switzerland The Renewal of the Restitution Process: Alternative • Marta Malá, Foundation for Holocaust Victims, Dispute Resolution Methods Czech Republic The Social Situation of the Victims of Nazism: A Czech • Stephen Knerly Jr., Association of Art Museum Example Directors, USA Selected Issues for American Art Museums Regarding • Nathan Durst, AMCHA Jerusalem, Israel Holocaust Looted Art Requirements for State Social Systems: the Experience of a Non-profit Organisation • Norman Palmer, Spoliation Advisory Panel, UK Integrity, Transparency and Pertinacity in the • Kazimierz Wóycicki, Office for War Veterans and Treatment of Holocaust-Related Art Claims Victims of Oppression, Poland Co-operation of the State Social Systems with the Non-profit Sector in Supporting the Victims WG Judaica and Jewish Cultural of Nazism – Experience and Future Outlook Property (PCC, Meeting Hall V) FR | EN • Alexander Pochinok, Council of Federation of the “Methodological Questions Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Russia Further Development of the State Social Programs Concerning the Provenance Research for the Victims of Nazism in Co-operation with Local of Judaica and Jewish Cultural Initiatives Property” • Igor Cvetkovski, International Organisation for Migration, Macedonia/ Switzerland Speakers: Supporting Gypsies in Central and South East Europe: • Karen Heilig, Conference on Jewish Material Claims A Practical Model of Co-operation between the Non- against Germany, USA profit Sector and Local Authorities Holocaust-Era Looted Judaica and Jewish Cultural Property: A World-Wide Overview • Daniel Dratwa, Jewish Museum of Belgium WG Holocaust Education, Remembrance Losses of Books and Archives from Public and Private and Research (PCC, Meeting Hall I) Collections “Remembrance, Memorials and • Karen Franklin, Museum of Jewish Heritage, USA Museums” Current State of Judaica Provenance Research in Jewish Museums in the US Chair: • Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, International Institute • Michael-Thomas Baier, Federal Ministry for of Social History, Ukrainian Research Institute, European and International Affairs, Austria Harvard University, Netherlands Perspectives from Remaining Archives of the • Richelle Budd-Caplan, Yad Vashem, Israel Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) The Educational Sustainability of Holocaust Holocaust Era Assets Conference Remembrance • Helena Koenigsmarková, Museum of Decorative • Thomas Lutz, Topography of Terror Foundation, Arts, Prague, Czech Republic Germany The Museum of Decorative Art in Prague´s Experience Memorial museums and ITF with Looted Objects in its Collection and their Identification • Sara J. Bloomfield, Director, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, USA • Monica Dugot, Christie‘s, USA The Mission and Impact of the United States Impact of the Washington Conference Principles on Holocaust Memorial Museum Art Market Practices: Moving the Discussion Forward • Felicitas Thurn, Dorotheum, Austria Dorotheum: Provenance Research and Due Diligence WG Immovable Property (Private and in the Art Trade in Central Europe Communal) (PCC, Meeting Hall IV) “Works in Progress – Examples from WG Judaica and Jewish Cultural Communities – Part I” Property (PCC, Meeting Hall V) FR | EN Chair: “The Distribution of Collected Judaica • Herbert Block, World Jewish Restitution and Jewish Cultural Property after Organization, USA 1945” • Faina Kukliansky, Jewish Community of Lithuania, Speakers: Lithuania • Michal Bušek, Jewish Museum, Prague, The Case of Lithuania Czech Republic • Joseph Zissels, Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, Restitution in Jewish Museum in Prague in Case of Ukraine Naftali Zvi Kartagener The Case of Ukraine • Magda Veselská, Jewish Museum, Prague, Czech • Alexander Necak, Federation of Jewish Republic Communities, Serbia Where Did All the Pretty Old Things Come From?; The The Case of Serbia Judaica Provenance Research at the Jewish Museum • Maxim Benveniste, Organization of Juds in in Prague Bulgaria, Bulgaria • Eleonora Bergman, The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish The Case of Bulgaria Historical Institute, Poland • Marta Malá, The Foundation for Holocaust Victims, Collection of Judaica after 1944 Czech Republic The Case of the Czech Republic 13.15–14.30 Buffet Lunch (PCC, Zoom) 14.30–16.00 Concurrent Expert Sessions III WG Looted Art (PCC, South Hall) CZ | EN “The Search for Works of Art and Special Session: Caring for Victims Other Cultural Assets – A Business or of Nazism and Their Legacy Moral Obligation?” (PCC, Conference Hall) CZ | EN | FR Chair: “Legal and Social Status of Victims • Anne Webber, Commission for Looted Art in of Nazism and Maintenance of their Europe, UK Legacy” • Nawojka Cieslinska-Lobkowicz, Freelance Art Chair: Historian and Provenance Researcher, Poland • Reuven Merhav, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel e Obligation of the State or a Hobby of the Few. e Implementation of the Washington Principles in Poland • Michael Teupen, Federal Association for Providing • Lucien Simmons, Sotheby‘s, USA Information and Consultations to Victims of National Provenance and Private Ownership: Just and Fair Socialism, Germany Solution in the Commercial Art Market Social and Legal Status of Victims of Nazism in Germany • Alex Faiman, B’nai B’rith Europe, UK Keeping Starvation at Bay for Holocaust Survivors and Other Victims of Nazism Holocaust Era Assets Conference • Čeněk Růžička, Committee for Compensation of the WG Looted Art (PCC, South Hall) CZ | EN Romany Holocaust, Czech Republic History, Perception, Memory, Social Care for Romany “Provenance Research” Survivors Chair: • Esther Toporek Finder, The Generation After, • Charlotte van Rappard-Boon, Inspectorate for Generations of the Shoah International, USA Cultural Heritage, Netherlands The Second Generation of Holocaust Survivors • Dagmar Lieblová, Terezín Initiative, Czech Republic • Carla Shapreau, University of California, Berkeley, USA Meaning and Function