Beloruski Fond Kul´tury: Vyartanne-3.

Zbornik artykulau i dakumentu. Skladil´niki A. Toustsik, M. Yanitskaya. Minsk 1996. ["The Return. Collection of Articles and Documents". Third volume of a series of publications about the cultural losses of Byelorussia. Besides the archival materials the "Round Table" on cultural losses which took place in Minsk in May 1995 is documented.]

Attias, Laure:	Paris - Missing Masterpieces. In: ARTnews. Vol. 96. No. 4. April 1997. P. 65.
Bergazov, Oleg, Sylvia Hochfield:	France: The Search for an answer. In: ARTnews. Vol. 96. No. 5. May 1997. Pp. 154-156.
D´Arcy, David:	War loot - If Not a Rembrandt, at Least a Schloss. US Customs Seize a Painting from a Looted Collection. In: The Art Newspaper. Vol. VIII. No. 72. July-Aug. 1997. P. 7.
Douvette, David:	Le pillage des biens juifs dans la France de Vichy. In: L´arche. Le mensuel de judaïsme français. No. 471. March 1997. Pp. 58-62. ["The Plunder of Jewish Goods in Vichy France" gives an account of the measures taken by the Vichy government against the Jewish population and states that much of the confiscated property ended up in various state organizations as well as in private hands.]
Feliciano, Hector:	The Lost Museum. The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World´s Greatest Works of Art. New York 1997. (ISBN 0-465-04194-9) [English version of "Le musée disparu" (see "Spoils of War" no. 2, pp. 16-18). An overview of the plundering and art market in France during the Second World War, including the Schenker list of the French art dealers and persons, who sold to German Museums. The English verison is updated and enlarged.]
Fessy, Emmanuel:	´Our British Neighbors are Protectionists´. French Minister of Culture Accuses the British of Failure to Apply EC Law. In: The Art Newspaper. Vol. VIII. No. 68. March 1997. Pp. 27-28. [Includes statements about the MNR-works in French museums.]
Greenberg, Sophia:	Paris. Rightful owners emerge for exhibited Nazi war loot. In: The Art Newspaper. Vol. VIII. No. 70. May 1997. Pp. 1-2.
Hochfield, Sylvia:	Paris - French to Act on War Assets. In: ARTNews. Vol. 96. No. 3. March 1997. P. 51.
Kamer, Waldemar:	Kunst als oorlogsbuit - Na Rusland en Duitsland nu een politiek thema in Frankrijk. In: Tableau Fine Arts Magazine. Vol. 19. No 5. April 1997. Pp. 50-60. ["Art as War Booty - after Russia and Germany Now a Political Issue in France". This illustrated Dutch article includes an interview with Francis Warin, nephew of Alphonse Kann. With English summary]
Melloul, Itzhak:	La spoliation des oeuvres d´art. In: L´arch. Le mensuel de judaïsme français. No. 471. March 1997. Pp. 63-67. ["The Spoliation of Works of Art" refers to the committee installed by the state to examine the spoliations and to the fact that the French museums possess ca. 2,000 works of art which were not reclaimed after the war. Included is an interview with Françoise Cachin, director of the Musées de France.]
Laloum, Jean:	La spoliation ordinaire. In: L´arch. Le mensuel de judaïsme français. No. 471. March 1997. Pp. 68-71. ["The Ordinary Spoliation" deals mainly with the confiscation ("aryanization") of Jewish businesses and houses.]
Pollack, Barbara:	International News - New York. In Good Faith? In: ARTnews. Vol. 96. No. 5. May 1997. P. 76. [Heirs of the Gutmann family searching for Renoir´s painting "Le Pommier" missing since World War II.]

"Beutekunst".	Materialien zu einer Bibliographie des neueren Schrifttums über das Schicksal des im Zweiten Weltkrieg von der Roten Armee in Deutschland erbeuteten Kulturgutes (Museums-, Archiv- und Bibliotheksbestände). Zusammengestellt von Peter Bruhn. Berlin 1977. Literaturnachweise zu aktuellen Rußland-Themen. 1. Veröffentlichungen der Osteuropa-Abteilung. Bd. 21. ["Trophy Art". Bibliography of literature and press articles about the topic of World War II losses starting in 1990. With short annotations and an index. 1153 entries.]
D´Arcy, David:	Restitution Cases. Why Did Leading US Museum Director Keep Mum over Paintings [16th Century Miniatures] Stolen from Kassel? In: The Art Newspaper. Vol. VIII. No. 70. May 1997. P. 14.
Grabowski, Jörn:	Wallfahrtsort Nationalgalerie. Zur Rückführung der Dresdener Gemälde aus der Sowjetunion. In: Jahrbuch Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Band XXXII. Berlin 1996. S. 323-348. ["Place of Pilgrimage National Gallery. About the Restitution of the Dresden Paintings from the Soviet Union".]
Hering, Jürgen:	Trophäenbücher und Beutekunst. Muß Deutschland seine Kriegsverluste abschreiben? In: Joachim Dietze, Brigitte Scheschonk (Hrsg.): Wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken nach der Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands - Entwicklung und Perspektive. Halle 1996. Pp. 33-47. ["Trophy Books and Trophy Art. Must Germany Write off it´s War Losses?".]
International News...in Brief.	In: ARTnews. Vol. 96. No. 4. April 1997. P. 70. ["Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate art): Historian Andreas Hüneke located the first complete list of art works condemned under Hitler´s rule.]
International News...in Brief.	In: ARTnews. Vol. 96. No. 5. May 1997. P. 102. [About the return of a Tischbein portrait missing since World War II from the Weimar Museum.]
Goldmann, Klaus:	Laudatio für Walter I. Farmer in Fürth am 10. Mai 1997. In: Eleusis. Heft 3. 1997. 52. Jg. Pp. 7-11. ["Laudatio for Walter I. Farmer". Held on occasion of the ceremony of the "Humanitarian Award of the German Freemasons" (see Latest News).]
Shestack, Alan:	Letters to the Editor - "We Are Not Required to Act as Art Watchdogs". In: The Art Newspaper. Vol. VIII. No. 71. June 1997. [Reaction to the article by David d´Arcy "Why Did Leading Museum Director Keep Mum over Paintings Stolen from Kassel?", The Art Newspaper. Vol. VIII. No. 700. May 1997. P. 14.]
Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg:	Deutsche Kunstmedaillen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Aus der Sammlung des Landesmünzkabinetts Sachsen-Anhalt. Halle 1996. ["German Art Medallions of the 20th Century. From the Collection of the Saxony-Anhalt State Cabinet of Medallions". See pp. 26-27: The Fate of the Collection after the Second World War.]

Mrávik, Laszlo:

Scattered Collections. Keszthely 1996. [Catalogue of an exhibition of the photos of outstanding artworks from Hungary which in the 20th century were either sold abroad, seized or destroyed. The exhibition was shown in the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest and in the Helikon Castle Museum of Keszthely.]

P.J.:	Looted Zucchi [from Italy] in the US. In: The Art Newspaper. Vol. VIII. No. 67. February 1997. P. 7.
Verschollene Werke. Aufstellung des Italienischen Kunsterbes, das während des Zweiten Weltkrieges abhanden gekommen ist.	Ministero degli Affari Esteri. Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali. Rom 1996. [German version of the catalogue of the Italian losses of works of fine arts due to World War II. It can be obtained at the following address: Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali. Commissione Interministrale per le Opere d´Arte. Mario Bondioli-Osio. Via degli Astalli 3/A. 00186 Roma. Italy]

Fishman, David E.:

Embers Plucked from the Fire: The Rescue of Jewish Cultural Treasures in Vilna. Preface by Allan Nadler. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. New York 1996. [Overview of the rescue and recovery of the YIVO Institute´s pre-1939 collections, emphasizing materials remaining in Lithuania. Adaptation from an address delivered on January 31st, 1996, at the celebration honoring the return of YIVO´s archives from Vilna. In English and Hebrew.]

Cenne, Bezcenne/Utracone.

Osrodek Ochrony i konserwacji Zabytków. 1. ´97. 2. ´97. ["Valuable, Invaluable/Lost". New periodial published by the Center for the Protection and Conservation of Monuments of Art. It mainly deals with actual cultural losses of Polish institutions, but also touches World War II losses.]

Lowe, Christian, Dmitry Zaks:	Council Votes for Trophy Art Lawsuit [against President Yeltsin]. In: Moscow Times. July 5, 1997.
Marsan, G.:	Russian Parliament Nationalises Art Taken from Germany. In: The Art Newspaper. Vol. VIII. No. 68. March 1997. Front page.
Restitution matters.	The Duma Overrides Yeltsin. In: The Art Newspaper. Vol. VIII. No. 70. May 1997. P. 3.

The Return of Looted Collections (1946-1996): An Unfinished Chapter.

Proceedings of an International Symposium to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the Return of Dutch Book Collections from Germany in 1946. Amsterdam, 15 and 16 April 1996. Amsterdam 1997. Edited by F.J. Hoogewoud. (ISBN 90.6861.136.4)