On ten occasions disney sea and has the honor of hosting restitution ceremonies where painting or other artifacts stolen by the nazis and their collaborators have been returned to the rightful owner. [applause] thank you. Some of you were with us last year. With the u. S. Attorneys office for the Southern District of new york here and we presented with a red one of stolen from a grandfather by the nazis. It was very moving event and we are proud to build on that with this series. We hope youll join us for the next event in this series. That will be recovering nazis looted art. They will discuss several cases and provide an overview of the ethical and legal issues involved in recovering Nazi Looted Art. We hope youll join us for the programmer that will be october 17 at 7 p. M. Tonight we welcome mary lane from the author of hitlers last hostages a fascinating new study of art the trace the roots of hitlers obsession with art and how its your decision of the perfect nazis did the author
C good evening. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I am margot lurie director of programming and engagement at the museum of jewish heritage, and living memorial to the holocaust. Want to welcome you to tonights event which inaccurate or arts restoration series. As you know the as part of their project to eliminate the jewish culture and identity. On 10 occasions this museum had the honor of hosting restitution to her monies or paintings or other artifact stolen by the nazis and their collaborators have been returned to their rightful owners. [applause] thank you. Some of you were with us last year. We had the u. S. Attorneys office for the Southern District of new york here and we presented a renoir from stolen from her grandfather by the nazis. Its a very moving event and we are proud of that. We hope you join us for the next event in the series. I will be recovering nazi looted art. Two lawyers recovered stolen artwork read the two will discuss several cases and provide an overview
Not long ago were not far away. Smith that deliberate destruction because of the story of the foundations of the peoples culture of places of worship and then use snap their spirits you undermined their ability to fight or identify as a people we have seen that with the last two years with iraq and syria with the Islamic State this destroying mosques and shrines in ancient sites and they saw what they saw cherished destroyed and assumed they would be the next victims so the strategy for the Islamic State resulted in a huge wave of refugees. Exploring the many ways which for hitler was a key strategy hitler wanted to control not only what they thought but what the german saw and limit creativity to aryans alone. So telling stories of artist who courageously fought against hitlers proclamations and tells the story of other more cowardly artist and then tell stories of the nazi art confiscation and those who sole confiscated art and we are fortunate to hear a few of these stories. So the
Not long ago were not far away. Smith that deliberate destruction because of the story of the foundations of the peoples culture of places of worship and then use snap their spirits you undermined their ability to fight or identify as a people we have seen that with the last two years with iraq and syria with the Islamic State this destroying mosques and shrines in ancient sites and they saw what they saw cherished destroyed and assumed they would be the next victims so the strategy for the Islamic State resulted in a huge wave of refugees. Exploring the many ways which for hitler was a key strategy hitler wanted to control not only what they thought but what the german saw and limit creativity to aryans alone. So telling stories of artist who courageously fought against hitlers proclamations and tells the story of other more cowardly artist and then tell stories of the nazi art confiscation and those who sole confiscated art and we are fortunate to hear a few of these stories. So the
Program and engagement at the museum of jewish heritage a living memorial for the holocaust. I want to welcome you to tonights event which inaugurates our art crimes and restoration series. As most of you know the nazis fomented the most extensive art fest in history from jews and others as part of the project to eliminate all vestiges of jewish culture and identity. On 10 occasions this museum had the honor of hosting restitution ceremonies where paintings or other artifacts were stolen by the nazis in their collaborators have been returned to the rightful owner. Thank you. [applause] some of you are with us last year we had the u. S. Attorneys office for the Southern District of new york here and we presented sylvie awith a memoir that was stolen by the nazis it was a very moving event and we are proud to build on that with the series. We hope youll join us for the next event in the series. That will be recovering nazis looted art featuring lawrence k and howard stigler. Two lawyers