The documents, setting out in detail the art, archives, books and other cultural valuables stolen in Nazi-occupied countries during the Second World War, are in Kyiv. Now, under an initiative supported by the State Committee on Archives of Ukraine, they are being made available on-ine, says Leigh Turner the British Ambassador to Ukraine in his blog on the Kyiv Post.
The documents, setting out in detail the art, archives, books and other cultural valuables stolen in Nazi-occupied countries during the Second World War, are in Kyiv. Now, under an initiative supported by the State Committee on Archives of Ukraine, they're being made available online, says Leigh Turner the British Ambassador to Ukraine in his blog on the Kyiv Post.
The Central State Archive of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine (TsDAVO) is joining the Joint International Project to Extend Access to Records Relating to Holocaust-Era Looted Cultural Property. Representatives of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany and the national archives in Germany, the USA, the UK and France, which have supported the project, attend and describe the importance of the material being made available. These are records of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR), one of the main agencies responsible for looting cultural valuables in Nazi-occupied countries during the Second World War.
The records of the ERR were scattered after the war and are now to be found in 29 repositories in nine countries. The collection of ERR records held by Ukraine, seized by Soviet forces at the end of the war, is the largest in the world.
