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Wesley Fisher
Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
Dr. Wesley Fisher is responsible for the Claims Conference/World Jewish Restitution Organization Looted Art and Jewish Cultural Property Initiative (see http://www.claimscon.org/art). He helped organize the 2009 Holocaust Era Assets Conference in Prague. Previously, he was a senior member of the founding staff of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Looted Art, Stolen Judaica, and Restitution
Recent Developments
- Sunday 12:30 PM–1:45 PM Room 208
Culture, History, Social Justice
This session will begin with an overview of Jewish efforts worldwide since World War II to recover and restitute the millions of art objects, library books, manuscripts, and Judaica taken by the Nazis and their allies during the Holocaust. Dr. Fisher will then describe the work of the Claims Conference and World Jewish Restitution Organization in this area and recent developments.
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