SATURDAY, 24th of JANUARY 2009

PANEL I CONFRONTING LOOTING AND DESTRUCTION: NEW STRATEGIES

10:00 Introduction
Inka Bertz, Jewish Museum Berlin

10:30 Reconstructing Jewish Cultural Landscapes – The »Tentative Lists« Project 1944–1948
Elisabeth Gallas, Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at Leipzig University

11:15 Hashavat Avedah: JCR, Inc. and the Rescue of Heirless Jewish Cultural Property After WW II
Dana Herman, Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati

12:00 Lunch Break

PANEL II GERMANY AND AUSTRIA

13:30 To Whom Do the Jewish Cultural Treasures belong after 1945? Conflict of Interests in the City of Frankfurt am Main
Katharina Rauschenberger, Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main

14:15 The situation in Berlin 1945–1953
N.N.

15:00 Displaced on Three Continents. The Fate of the Material Heritage of the Jewish Community in Vienna
Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Jewish Museum Vienna

15:45 Coffee Break

PANEL III EAST CENTRAL EUROPE I

16:15 What Happened in Prague?
Michaela Sidenberg, Jewish Museum in Prague

17:00 Dealing with the Jewish Cultural Assets in Post-War Poland
Nawojka Cieslinska-Lobkowicz, Art Historian and Provenance Researcher, Warsaw/Munich

17:45 The Jewish Historical Institute as a Repository for Jewish Cultural Treasures in Poland
N. N.

SUNDAY, 25th of JANUARY 2009

PANEL IV WESTERN EUROPE

10:00 A Matter of Conscience? Legal and Moral Aspects of Dutch Restitution Policy
Julie Marthe Cohen, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam

10:45 The Fate of Jewish-Owned Cultural Treasures in Paris and in France
Laurence Sigal, Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris

11:30 Looted Jewish Art and Cultural Properties in Italy. The Difficult Restitution and Compensation after 1945
Paola Bertilotti, Sciences-Po, Paris / Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon

12:15 Lunch Break

PANEL V EAST CENTRAL EUROPE II

13:45 Lviv 1944 – Now. Jewish Cultural Objects and Property. Some Cases and Tendencies
Tarik Cyril Amar, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv

14:30 Restitution Issues in Post-War Romania
Hildrun Glass, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

15:15 »Disappeared?« The Fate of Jewish-Owned Cultural Artifacts in Hungary after 1945
Eszter Gantner, ELTE University of Budapest – Center for Central European German Jewish Culture

16:00 Final discussion: Open Questions, Ongoing Controversies