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The question of how to deal with cultural property or looted property held in trust concerns libraries, archives, museums, and Jewish institutions. While ordinary kinds of acquisition in cultural institutions, i.e. purchases, donations, deposit copies or exchanges, have been examined within the scope of NS provenance research, another type of transaction has been mostly overlooked so far. It concerns the transfer of objects with conditions attached, with institutions accepting items in trust , as loans or as legacies, or objects being allocated to institutions by the state, which occurred as part of NS book and art looting as well as in the course of later political developments. On the basis of how libraries, archives and museums have so far dealt with cultural objects held in trust , national and international librarians, historians, curators and legal experts are invited to discuss structured procedures and lead an interdisciplinary debate on the requirements, chances and limits of appropriate measures concerning objects which have been illegally acquired and have been received in trust .

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Olivia Kaiser ist Historikerin und an der Universitatsbibliothek Wien als NS-Provenienzforscherin und im Projektmanagement tatig. Dr. Christina Kostner-Pemsel ist wissenschaftliche Bibliothekarin. Sie leitet die Fachbereichsbibliothek Romanistik an der Bibliothek der Universitat Wien und ist als NS-Provenienzforscherin tatig. Markus Stumpf ist wissenschaftlicher Bibliothekar. Er leitet an der Universitat Wien die Fachbereichsbibliothek Zeitgeschichte und die NS-Provenienzforschung der Bibliothek.

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