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ART NEWSPAPER June 1998 BUYER BEWARE The Art Loss Register database currently has records of numerous works looted from public and private collections between 1939 and a945. A full-time art historian will now be deployed to register additional missing works of art free of charge. The Art Loss Register intends to cooperate fully with the New York State Banking Department's Holocaust Claims Processing Office. It will also work with the Holocaust Art Restitution Project (HARP), the World Jewish Congress Commission on Art Recovery (CAR) and other specialist projects dedicated to tracing Holocaust art, including those of the Association of American Museum Directors and the National Association of Insurance Commisioners. With its expertise and technology for checking auction house sales internationally for stolen art, the Art Loss Register has offered to make this screening service available to all organisations concerned with the identification and recovery of wartime losses.
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