Robinson, Walter, 229
Rocca, Michele, Rinaldo and Armida, 251
Rodrigo, Evert, 244
Rosen, Barry, 216
Rosenberg, Alfred, 5, 165
Rosenberg, Paul, 232, 233
Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York, 284
Rothschild, Edmond de, 46
Rothschild, Karl von, 35–36, 246
Rothschild family, 23, 32, 34, 46, 175, 184, 304
Rousseau, Theodore, 280
Rubens, Peter Paul:
in Göring’s collection, 122
The Coronation of the Virgin, 99
Rundstedt, Gerd von, 260
Rutgers University, 273–74, 284–85, 286, 289–91
Safer, Morley, 212–13
Saher, Marei von, 239
St. Florian monastery, Austria, 184, 235–36
San Diego Museum of Art, 11, 85
San Gimignano, towers of, 105, 147, 175
Sapuppo, Baron Giuseppe, 129, 175
Sapuppo, Jacobea, 175
Sauermann, Hans, 183, 295, 296, 301, 302
Savonerrie carpet, 244, 251
Saxony, Kings of, 20, 34
Schacht, Hjalmar, 27, 69, 95, 99, 101, 165
Schermerhorn, Wim, 167–68
Schleicher, Kurt von, 95
Schloss Schönfeld, 21, 21, 37, 291, 309
Schloss Zeesen, 40, 73
Schoenberg, Randy, 266, 267, 268
Schönemann, Dr. and Frau, 261
Schultze-Dumbsky, Eva, 13–14, 196–97, 226–27, 247, 306
Schuster-Burckhardt, Hans, 40, 44, 47
Schuszler, Angela:
Chickens, 235, 236, 237, 241
Ducks at a Pond, 235, 236, 237, 241
Sciamplicotti, Cesare, 39, 146
“Search, The” (CBS-TV), 212–13, 227
Searle, Daniel, 203, 204–6, 208, 209, 210–11, 212, 213–19, 222, 225, 253
Seattle Art Museum, 232, 233
Seattle Jewish Film Festival, 217
Seeck, Franz, 72
Seghers, Hercules, 87, 194, 286, 288
Seidl, Siegfried, 137
Seligmann, Jacques, 83
Seligmann brothers’ gallery, Paris, 46
Semper, Gottfried, 20
Seyss-Inquart, Artur, 117, 136, 165, 260, 275
S. G. Warburg & Co., 31
Signorelli, Luca, 87, 187
Baptism of Christ, 208
Simmons, Lucian, 233, 306
Simpson, James Young, 8
Singer, Israel, 238, 239
Six-Day War, 13
60 Minutes, 212–13, 227
SNK (Dutch Art Collections Foundation), 184–85, 186–87, 189–90, 192, 237
Sobernheim brothers, 50, 309
Sobernheim, Curt, 174
Sobibór concentration camp, 164
Sotheby’s, 249, 250, 306
and Botticelli Portrait, 227–31
and Degas Paysage, 218
Important Old Masters Paintings catalog, 227
in-house restitution department, 233
and Renoir Le Poirier, 223–24, 226–27
Soviet Union:
nonaggression pact with Germany, 108
Red Army “trophy brigades,” 182
Spain, Nazi bombing in, 106
Spanish Inquisition, 131
Speer, Albert, 259, 260
Speer, Margarete, 259
Spielmann (guard), 153
Spier, Jo, 139, 166
Spitzer, Frédéric, 34, 35
Stalin, Joseph, 108
State Department, US, and Washington Principles, 232–33
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 228
Steinberg, Elan, 238
Stevenson, Mary, 39
Stoffel, Alexander, 313
Stout, George, 233
Streicher, Julius, 260
Stresemann, Gustav, 28
Strölin, Alfred, 283
Stuck, Franz von, Die Sünde (The Sin) or Die Sinnlichkeit (The Sensuality), 89, 125, 194, 257–59, 262–71, 264, 275, 288, 290, 307, 317
Sudetenland, annexation of, 106, 108
Swiss Banking Association, 207
Switzerland:
art smuggled into, 207, 208
artworks looted from, 279
Claims Resolution Tribunal, 289–90
class-action suit against Swiss banks, 238, 239
negotiations with, 249
safe harbor for “abandoned” assets, 207, 209, 239, 274, 286
Tan, Shuchen, 235, 240, 242
Taper, Bernard, 209
Theresienstadt, 135–57
documentary film of, 140
early history of, 137–38
escapes from, 147–48
Fritz and Louise in, 141–42, 144, 147, 149–51, 152–53
Fritz and Louise’s arrival at, 136–37, 164, 166
Fritz beaten to death in, 153–54, 166, 172, 191, 229
Kleine Festung (Little Fortress), 135, 137–38, 148, 151–54, 155, 166
lists of survivors, 164–65
Louise’s transport to Auschwitz from, 156, 157
mass grave in, 154
as “model” concentration camp, 5, 138–40, 144, 164
number of deaths in, 140, 165
“Potemkin village” of, 139–40
prisoners released from, 144–45
Red Army arrival at, 154
Red Cross tour of, 139–40
“special cases” in, 141
transport to extermination camps from, 138, 140
walled community of Terezin, 154–56
Third Reich Radio Corporation, 235
Thoma, Hans, 260
Thurn und Taxis, Prince von, 279
Thyssen, Fritz, 96
Thyssen, Heinrich, 79, 284
Treblinka concentration camp, 164
Trienens, Howard, 213, 216
Troller, Norbert, 151
Trotti, Count Ercole, 46, 84
Ubbens, Jop, 249, 251
Union Bank of Switzerland, 225
United States:
Nazi loot in, 210; see also specific collections and museums
war archives of, 289, 293–94
United States of America v. Karl Brandt, et al., 261
Universum Film AG (UFA), 71–72
Utrecht, Governor of, 234–35
Utten, Hans, Silver Cat by, 73, 248, 314
Valland, Rose:
and Baldung Grien, 281–83
and Botticelli Portrait, 228
and Degas paintings, 201, 202, 203
and French Resistance, 181
and Gutmann collection, 187, 194, 211, 228, 233, 288
and Jeu de Palme museum, 181, 206
photographs taken by, 181, 199, 201, 202, 203, 221, 223
and recovery of art, 187, 233
and Renoir landscape, 201, 223
Van Diemen Gallery, Berlin, 83
Vasari, Giorgio, 85
Vatican:
limited influence of, 130, 144, 145, 147
Max granted refuge in, 146
Vermeer, Jan, The Astronomer, 183
Veronese, Paolo, 87, 180
Versailles, Treaty of, 61
Victoria, Queen of England, 8
Vienna, Gutmann family members in, 263
Vigée-Lebrun, Élisabeth, self-portrait, 86, 126
Villa Favorita, Lugano, 284
Vollard, Ambroise, 83, 88
Vos, Rik, 244, 248
Voss, Herman, 149
Wacker-Bondy, Mme., storage, 183, 223, 225, 276, 277, 282
Wagner, Siegfried, 70, 71
Wagner, Winifred, 70
Wallach, Fritz, 174
Wallich, Hermann, 51
Wallich, Paul, 50–52
Wannsee Conference, 94, 138
Wannsee Golf Club, 94, 94, 99, 138
Wannsee internment camp, 207
Warburg, Alice Magnus, 30
Warburg, Max, 28, 30, 61
Warburg, Sir Siegmund, 31, 96, 97
Warburg family, 29,
30–31
War Picture Library, 7, 8
Washington Principles, 232–33, 249, 290
Webber, Anne, Making a Killing, 213–14, 217, 238
Weimar Republic, 28, 68–69, 92, 97
Weinberg, Arthur von, 141
Weissenberger, Otto, 263
Wendland, Hans Adolf, 183, 206, 207–9, 215, 276, 282
Westerbeek, J. E., 132–33, 168–70
Westerbork detention camp, 119–20, 131, 139
West Germany, see Germany
Wetzlar, R., 228–29
Wilhelm, Crown Prince, 82, 93, 96
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 29, 58, 61, 81–82, 96
Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands, 115
Willem-Alexander, Crown Prince, 234–35
Williams-Bulkeley, Harry, 252
Wiman, Anna, 9–10
Winter Olympics (1936), 104, 105
Wit, Jacob de, 288
Bosbeek renovation by, 74, 75
ceiling oil canvas (Bacchus and Ceres in the Clouds) by, 75, 168–70, 169, 243, 247
grisaille (Autumn) by, 74, 75, 169, 243
Wittmann, Otto Jr., 209
Wolf, Emile, 209–10
Wolf-Walborsky, Evelyne, 210
Wood, James, 217
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, 232, 233
World Jewish Congress (WJC), 238, 239
World War I:
end of, 61–64, 66
onset of, 52–55
period between World Wars, 74–75
veterans of, in Theresienstadt, 139
World War II, 58–62, 73, 173
in Britain, 6–7, 54–58, 159
German blitzkrieg in, 108
German surrender in, 164
and Nazis, 181–82; see also Nazis
onset of, 108–9
Phony War, 108
portents of, 107–8
Württemberg State Collection, Stuttgart, 310–13
Zelleke, Ghenete, 253
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 274, 284, 285–87, 289–91
Zionism, 37, 168
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Goodman, Simon.
The Orpheus Clock : the search for my family’s art treasures stolen by the Nazis / Simon Goodman.
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1. Gutmann family. 2. Jewish bankers—Germany—Biography. 3. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)—Germany. 4. Gutmann family—Art collections. 5. Goodman family—Art collections. 6. Art thefts—Germany—History—20th century. 7. Art thefts—Investigation. 8. World War, 1939–1945—Reparations. I. Title.
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