Except of course, that the last paragraph says: "Chairman Julius Berman said it was 'now the responsibility of museums, art dealers and auction houses to check their holdings against these records to determine whether they might be in possession of art stolen from Holocaust victims'." This seems to naively assume that art dealers, among others, wish to know that they are in possession of stolen art. Let's not hold our collective breath on that coming to pass.
Dr. Julie H. Ernstein
Asst. Prof. of Anthropology
Heritage Resources Program
School of Social Sciences
Northwestern State University
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Natchitoches, LA 71497
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Subject: Stolen Holocaust art database launched
This might be worth following, to see how effective it turns out to be (we
could learn something about how to find looted antiquities):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11564355