Goals

The JDCRP Foundation has three main goals:

1. Documentation: Compilation of relevant archives and documents on a central platform.
2. Research: In-depth analysis of themes such as Jewish artists, collectors, and Jewish-owned collections.
3. Education: Highlighting the scope and impact of the theft.

In doing so, we aim to:

• Provide international archival documentation on Jewish-owned cultural objects plundered by the Nazis, their allies, and collaborators from the time of their spoliation to the present, based on archival documentation.
• Identify additional data such as the original owners, perpetrators, dealers, and the timeline of the theft.
• Develop educational material depicting the nature and complexity of the theft of cultural objects, helping to integrate the history of the theft of property into Holocaust studies curricula.
• Recapture the involvement of Jews in the arts prior to World War II, underscoring individual and collective contributions to the history and heritage of European culture.
• Generate greater public awareness of and dialogue on the scarcely researched and largely unsolved theft of Jewish-owned cultural property.
• Expand the JDCRP network of partner institutions and affiliated specialists to the rest of Europe and beyond.
• Create models for the documentation and investigation of cultural theft as part of genocide.