26 November 2020 Dear member/affiliated member of AEJM, As some of you already know, AEJM is planning the creation of an international database of lost and found Jewish ceremonial objects. In 1998 international attention for the Nazi looting of Jewish cultural assets and provenance research resulted in the non-binding Washington Principles that focused on art objects. Provenance research in Jewish museums, including Judaica was discussed for the first time in 2006 during an annual meeting of the AEJM. The conference recommended to AEJM members to sign a resolution to this effect. The topic of provenance research has been on the agenda of AEJM meetings regularly ever since. In 2009 the Holocaust Era Assets Conference took place in Prague, where 46 States for the first time specifically dealt with looted Judaica separately from looted art and other property. The resulting Terezin Declaration paved the way to two publications focusing on Judaica objects: Neglected Witnesses. The… | Read more »