Decoding the Records of Cultural Plunder: AI, Linked Data, and Nazi-Era Looted Art

An online exhibition by the Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project Foundation (JDCRP)

“Decoding the Records of Cultural Plunder: AI, Linked Data, and Nazi-Era Looted Art” offers a behind-the-scenes look at how generative AI is revolutionizing research and education on the greatest cultural theft in history: the systematic Nazi-era looting of Jewish-owned property across Europe. The exhibition introduces the JDCRP’s forthcoming digital platform, which assembles archival material to support users uncovering the fates of stolen objects and their owners.

Discover how archival data and provenance research can help reconstruct the lives and cultural contributions of Holocaust victims, and explore additional research tools from the JDCRP, such as the first multi-national compilation of biographical information on persecuted Jewish artists and collectors throughout Europe. 

The exhibition was first presented at the Mendelssohn Remise in Berlin on April 8, 2025.

Explore the exhibition by clicking the individual panels below, or click here to view all panels in one PDF.

Panel 2 - The TheftPanel 3 - The Documents
Panel 4 - JDCRP HistoryPanel 5 - The ArchivesPanel 6 - Provenance Research
Panel 7 - Artificial IntelligencePanel 8 - The JDCRP Archival PlatformPanel 9 - The Collectors
Panel 10 - The ArtistsPanel 11 - Holocaust EducationPanel 12 - The Audience
Panel 13 - The GamechangerPanel 14 - Next StepsReferences & Sources

The exhibition is part of a project co-funded by the European Union and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (the Claims Conference), sponsored by the Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” (EVZ) and supported by the German Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF). The German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) co-funded some of the projects highlighted in the exhibition.