Thursday, June 26, 2025,
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Recovered memories

As part of the French presidency of the European network of restitution commissions, the CIVS is organizing the Recovered Memories conference in Paris on Thursday, June 26, 2025. Open to the public upon registration, this meeting will be devoted to dialogue between the families of the dispossessed, cultural institutions and restitution commissions. United in the same network for five years, the commissions created in Germany, Austria, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom are implementing policies for the restitution of cultural property looted between 1933 and 1945 under the National Socialist regime.


On 26 June, cases of restitution will be presented, in the presence of the commissions that recommended them, the heirs of the victims of spoliation, and the provenance researchers involved. The afternoon will be led by Léa Veinstein, a philosopher, film-maker and author specialising in the transmission of the memory of the Shoah.


Learn more: https://www.civs.gouv.fr/en/recovered-memories-en