This page allows you to consult a digitized version of the registers of assets stolen in France during the war 1939-1945.
For consistency, we have digitized all 14 volumes of the Directory, including those that do not concern works of art, such as industrial machinery, transport equipment or securities (for these volumes the description is organized differently, but contains the elements allowing the identification of the reference and that of the legitimate owner).
Do not hesitate to download the instructions for use of the available directory for advice on consultation.
Description of the work
In each of the volumes, each object has in principle the following mentions on the same line, even if the organization of the designation may vary from one volume to another:
- publication order number (sometimes preceded by an asterisk (*) indicating the works considered important);
- number of the OBIP file (this number may correspond to several notices if the request for restitution includes several works);
- name of the artist;
- description of the object, sometimes indicating the technique and the photograph in the publication;
- the dimensions;
- the name of the owner.
It is therefore a monumental publication of more than 6000 pages which, because of the necessary rapidity of the work of the BCR, the very conditions of this work and the method of constitution of the cards, could not be free from mistakes, typos and imperfections. In addition, for the sake of precision, supplements were constantly added, either at the end of the volume itself, or as an additional volume relating to one or more previous volumes. The result is a rather complex mode of use which requires a search at several points in the publication.
