Advisory Council

The Advisory Council is an advisory body composed of representatives of cooperating governments, EU bodies, NGOs and independent experts who provide the Institute with relevant expert information, recommendations and proposals. The Advisory Council consists of five working groups: Welfare of Holocaust Survivors and Other Victims of Nazi Persecution; Immovable Property; Nazi-Confiscated and Looted Cultural Property; Judaica and Jewish Cultural Property; and Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research.

Welfare of Holocaust Survivors and other Victims of Nazi Persecution

David Amar​​, The Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah
Tatyana Schlychkova, MFA of the Russian Federation
Ellen Heller, ​​American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Roman Kent, ​​International Auschwitz Committee
Ihor Lushnikov, ​​International Foundation "Mutual Understanding and Tolerance"
Marta Malá, ​​Foundation for Holocaust Victims
Jaroslav Niklas, ​​Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic
Martin Salm​​, Foundation EVZ, "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future"
Darina Sedláčková​​, Living Memory
Gregory Schneider​​, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
Michael Teupen​, Federal Association for Providing Information and Consultations to Victims of National Socialism
Jarmila Balážová, Czech Radio
Sorel Harlev, Ministry for Senior Citizens, Israel

Immovable Property

Andrew Baker​, American Jewish Committee
Herbert Block​, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Vlasta Kovačević​, Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Croatia
Mordechay Hareli​, Organization of Forced Laborers under the Nazi Occupation
Hannah Lessing​, National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism
Daniel S. Mariaschin​, B´nai B´rith International
Aharon Mor​, Ministry for Senior Citizens of Israel
David Peleg​, World Jewish Restitution Organization
Igor Rintel​, Central Union of Jewish Religious Communities in the Slovak Republic
Nigel Ross, ​World Jewish Relief
David Ruzié​, Commission for the Compensation of Victims of Spoliation
Bobby Brown, Project HEART

Nazi-Confiscated and Looted Cultural Property

Thierry Bajou,​ Ministry for Culture and Communication of France
Nawojka Cieślińska-Lobkowicz,​ art historian and independent provenance researcher
Mary Kate Cleary​, The Art Loss Register
Monica Dugot, Christie´s
Michael Franz, Koordinierungstelle Magdeburg
Shauna Isaac,​ Sage Recovery
Renata Košťálová​, Documentation Centre for Property Transfers of Cultural
Assets of World War II Victims
Marc Masurovsky,​ Historian
Lynn Nicholas, Independent Researcher
Agnes Peresztegi,​ Commission for Art Recovery
Anne Webber​, Commission for Looted Art in Europe
Nancy Yeide​, National Gallery of Art
Willi Korte, Historian, Lawyer
Elizabeth Royer, Art historian
Shoshana Berman, Judge (ret.)


Judaica and Jewish Cultural Property

Zanet Battinou,​ Jewish Museum of Greece
Inka Bertz​, Jewish Museum Berlin
Julie-Marthe Cohen,​ Jewish Historical Museum
Wesley Fisher​, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
Karen Franklin,​ Museum of Jewish Heritage
Felicitas Heimann Jelinek​, Curator and Consultant
Rhoda Rosen​, School of the Art Institute
Magda Veselská,​ Jewish Museum in Prague
Hila Tene,​ Ministry of Justice of the State of Israel
Photini Tomai-Constantopoulou, Helenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research

Shmuel Ben Shmuel​​, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel
Oded Breda​​, Beit Theresienstadt
Richelle Budd-Caplan​​, Yad Vashem; International School for Holocaust Studies
Diana Larisa Cindea​​, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania
Michal Frankl​​, Jewish Museum in Prague
Christoph Heubner, ​​International Auschwitz Committee
Zvi Inbar​​, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
Robert Kirkpatrick, ​​Department of Education and Skills of Ireland
Marek Lauermann​​, Terezin Initiative
Kathrin Meyer​, International Task Force for Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research
Jan Munk​​, Terezin Memorial
Günter Saathoff​, Foundation EVZ, "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future"
Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke, ​Danish Institute for International Studies
Monika Vrzguľová​, Holocaust Documentation Center
Mark Weitzman​, Simon Wiesenthal Center