Jewish Digital Cultural
Recovery Project Foundation
The JDCRP Foundation, “Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project Stiftung”, headquartered in Berlin, is the legal administrator of the project and is subject to the German Civil Code. The Foundation embodies the governing framework for the project, and ensures its financial viability. It is comprised of a Board of Trustees, an Executive Board and an Advisory Council.
The JDCRP Foundation’s purpose is to promote scholarship and research through a coordinating body responsible for collecting relevant historical documentation from a wide range of institutions. These documents address the plunder of Jewish-owned cultural assets by the Nazis, their allies and collaborators, between 1933-1945, including their postwar fate.
Bodies of the Foundation
The Board of Trustees advises, supports and monitors the Executive Board pursuant to the foundation’s statutes, in order to fulfill the will of the founders as effectively as possible.
The Executive Board conducts the running business of the foundation according to the foundation’s objective as well as the resolutions of the Board of Trustees and statutory laws.
The Advisory Council supports the Executive Board and Board of Trustees with its advice. The Advisory Council may develop recommendations towards the realization of the Foundation’s objectives.
Board of Trustees
Rüdiger Mahlo, Chair
Representative in Germany, The Claims Conference
Dr. Zsuzsanna Toronyi
Director, Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives
Monica Dugot
Attorney and global art professional with a focus on Nazi looted art claims, dispute resolution, and restitution, formerly International Director of Restitution at Christie’s and Deputy Director of New York State Banking Department’s Holocaust Claims Processing Office
Dr. Herbert Winter
Commercial law attorney in Zurich, former President of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities, former vice president of the World Jewish Congress and the European Jewish Congress
Executive Board
Deidre Berger, Chair
Former American Jewish Committee Senior European Affairs Advisor and Director of the AJC Berlin Lawrence and Lee Ramer Institute for German-Jewish Relations
Dr. Wesley Fisher
Director of Research, The Claims Conference
JDCRP Foundation Advisory Council
Richard Aronowitz
Sotheby’s
Dr. Andrea Baresel-Brand
Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste, Germany
Jérôme Benezech
Commission pour l’indemnisation des victimes de spoliations, France
Dr. Sylvia Naylor
National Archives and Records Administration, U.S.
t.b.a.
Christie’s
Bart Eeman
Ministère des Affaires économiques, Belgium
Dr. Christian Fuhrmeister
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Germany
Dr. Andrea Hänger
Bundesarchiv, Germany
Dr. Thomas Kirchner
Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art, France
Michael Levy
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Dr. Pia Schölnberger
Kommission für Provenienzforschung beim Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport, Austria
Filip Strubbe
Archives générales du Royaume, Archives de l’État en Belgique
Juliette Trey
Institut national d’histoire de l’art, France
David Zivie
Mission de recherche et de restitution des biens culturels spoliés entre 1933 et 1945, Ministère de la Culture, France
Staff
Lena Ringleb
Senior Strategic Director
Avishag Ben-Yosef
Project Manager, JDCRP Pilot Project
Marc Masurovsky
Academic Director, JDCRP Pilot Project
Ashley Argüello Blaison
Communications Officer, JDCRP Pilot Project