Morris (?”?) and Betty Starkman Annual Genealogy Lecture and Election of Officers

Sunday, June 26, 2011 at 11:00 am,
Holocaust Memorial Center

State of the Art: Restitution and Resolutions

Special Guest Karen Franklin will discuss genealogical research techniques used to unite Nazi-era art with its rightful owners.

She will present an overview of looted art issues in US and European Jewish museums, and demonstrate how the international Jewish genealogical community is helping to solve ongoing European cases. Franklin will share some of the genealogical research she used to help solve prominent cases in the Netherlands, Germany and Ukraine.

Karen is guest curator of the exhibition, The Morgenthaus: A Legacy of Service, currently on display at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – a Living Memorial to the Holocaust in Manhattan. A co-chair of the Board of Governors of JewishGen.org, she is a past president of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies and a past chair of the Council of American Jewish Museums. Karen serves on the board the International Committee of Memorial Museums of ICOM (International Council of Museums) and many other boards. A researcher on looted art, she has worked on cases for the Origins Unknown Agency in the Netherlands, the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, and the U. S. Treasury Department. She was recently appointed to the Advisory Council of the European Shoah Legacy Institute.

If any member of JGSMI would like to nominate themselves or another member for any of the above positions, please contact John Kovacs at 248-851-3481 or elections@jgsmi.org prior to June 17, 2011.

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