Dispossessed

About the cultural and emotional impact of the looting of art on the Jewish community in the Netherlands
The book accompanies the exhibition Dispossessed at the Jewish Museum and National Holocaust Museum

The Jewish Cultural Quarter and the Rijksmuseum are organizing the exhibition Dispossessed, a major museum project on cultural property that was stolen by the Nazis from Jewish owners in the Netherlands, with a special focus on art, Jewish books and ritual objects.

The stories of Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, Max Heppner, Dési Goudstikker, Louis Lamm and others make the owners visible and show that claiming and returning Jewish cultural property is still relevant today, and a form of redress.

In Dispossessed, eight gripping personal stories reveal the emotional impact of looting as part of a process of dehumanization and the way in which this injustice continues to resonate in subsequent generations.