Looted Art & Judaica Project
The Looted Art & Judaica Project (LAJP) is a multi-facetted collaborative museum project about the looting and restitution of Jewish cultural property.
LAJP is organised by an international consortium of six partners, funded by the European Union in the framework of the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (European Remembrance, CERV-2023-CITIZENS-REM).
LAJP envisions to be a game-changer in the public and professional perception of Jewish looted art and ceremonial objects by the Nazi regime and issues of restitution.
The main objectives of LAJP
- To strengthen the remembrance of the Holocaust through research, commemorating, and educating about the crimes of expropriation and looting of art and Jewish ceremonial objects as part of the marginalization and dehumanization process of Jews under the Nazi regime
- To explore restitution as a means of historical justice by focusing on how the pain and injustice caused by these crimes resonates throughout the generations up until today in present day European society
- To contribute to better fertile ground for new restitution applications through promoting an empathic approach of restitution of looted art and Judaica;
- To strengthen the international ecosystem of provenance research and restitution of looted art and Judaica
Insoles made from a Torah scroll in the exhibition Looted at the Jewish Museum, from the collection of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center.
-Photo by Anneke Hymmen
Audience
LAJP addresses both professional audiences and the wider public, including:
- international provenance research community
- Dutch museum community
- European community of Jewish museums
- policy makers in the Netherlands
- national and international press & media based in the Netherlands
- Jewish communities in the Netherlands.
AEJM International Museum Conference at the National Holocaust Museum
-Ernst van Deursen
Selected LAJP project output planned for 2024
- Exhibition Looted. Personal Stories about the Looting and Restitution of Jewish Cultural Property at the National Holocaust Museum and the Jewish Museum in the Jewish Cultural Quarter Amsterdam (May 31 – Oct 27, 2024)
- Publication Dispossessed in English and Dutch versions, published by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
- 4-episodes podcast series The Lost Heppner Collection (De verdwenen collectie Heppner) in Dutch
- International Symposium Looted at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (Sept 9-10, 2024)
- International museum conference for European Jewish museums at the Jewish Cultural Quarter Amsterdam (June 16-18, 2024)
- Various training and exchange events for professionals at the Jewish Cultural Quarter Amsterdam
- Various public events for the wider audience at the Jewish Cultural Quarter Amsterdam
- Public communication campaign
Exhibition Looted, Jewish Museum.
-Anneke Hymmen
Consortium
Jewish Cultural Quarter - coordinator
Rijksmuseum
Associate Partners
Arbeitskreis Provinienzforschung
Association of European Jewish Museums
Cultural Heritage Agency via Ministry of Education, Culture and Science [LINK
NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies via Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen
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Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or EACEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
