The ARI Fall 2007 meeting was held on November 28th at the Ursuline Province Center, New Rochelle, NY.
Karen S. Franklin, Director of Family Research at the Leo Baeck Institute, presented "State of the Art: Restitution and Resolution"
Karen demonstrated how research online and in archives has been utilized to help her solve looted art cases in New York, the Netherlands, Israel and the Ukraine. Karen worked on cases for the Origins Unknown Agency and the Commission for Looted Art in Europe. She is a co-author of the Council of American Jewish Museums' Resolution on Nazi-Era Looted Art, adopted in January 2007, and described how this resolution affects claimants and the Jewish community.
Looted Art: One Case from State of the Art gives an idea of the interesting cases Karen discussed in this presentation. Roots-Key, the newsletter of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles, has generously allowed us to post this pre-publication version of the article.