"Dr Lillie has explained the Kafkaesque system for the confiscation of goods, which usually worked like this. When a Jew applied to emigrate, in theory only 25% of his goods went to the State. An inventory was submitted and the Zentralstelle für Denkmalschutz decided which works of art were of national importance and these were “made secure”, ie; confiscated. It was rare, however, for what was left to be reunited with the owner, who had usually already fled to an unknown destination. Instead, it sat in Nazi-owned warehouses, which sold the goods to pay the “storage charges” that the owner obviously could not cover." Anna Somers Cocks, 1 July 2004 The Art Newspaper, Book review of Sophie Lillie's Was Einmal War
Sophie Lillie, Was einmal war: Handbuch der enteigneten, Kunstsammlungen Wiens (Czernin Verlag, Vienna, 2003) 1,440 pp, 354 b/w ills, €69 (hb), ISBN 3707600491
"This important book gives a full documentation for the Jewish art collectors of Vienna whose goods and lives were targeted by the Nazis"
Austrian Jewish art collectors who were dispossessed by the Nazis
Leon and Marianne Abramowicz,
Bernhard Altmann,
Hans and Helene Amon,
Otto and Clara Anninger,
Gustav Arens,
Fritz and Anna Unger,
Felix and Lise Haas,
Carl and Rosa Askonas,
Stefan Auspitz,
Theodor and Angela Auspitz-Artenegg,
Elisabeth Bachofen-Echt,
Richard and Paula Beer-Hofmann,
Ernst and Irma Benedikt,
Ludwig Bettelheim-Gabillon,
Rudolf and Martha Bittmann,
Josef and Gusti Blauhorn,
Hugo and Malvine Blitz,
Wilhelm and Gertrude Blitz,
Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer,
Victor and Alice Blum,
Oscar Bondy (fled to Switzerland, died in NY in 1944)
Julius and Paula Breuer,
Otto and Lilly Brill,
Julius and Margarethe Buchstab,
Paul and Mary Cahn-Speyer,
Edwin and Caroline Czeczowiczka,
Arthur and Irma Czeczowiczka,
Georg Duschinsky,
Ernst and Fanny Egger,
Lothar and Eveline Egger-Möllwald,
Alfred and Valerie Eisler,
Hermann and Hortense Eissler,
Berta Morelli,
Hans and Lucie Engel,
Viktor and Emilie Ephrussi,Charlotte Epstein,
Rudolf Ernst,
Gertrud Felsöványi,
Adele Fischel,
Josef Freund,
Wilhelm Freund,
Hugo and Hilde Friedmann,
Hermann and Elsa Gall,
Paul and Martha Gerngross,
Robert and Frida Gerngross,
Emil Geyer,
David and Lilly Goldmann,
Philipp, Cornelia and Marie Gomperz,
Fritz and Lilly Grünbaum,
Karl and Stephanie Grünwald,
Rudolf and Marianne Gutmann,
Leo and Helene Hecht,
Valerie Heissfeld,
Wilhelm and Daisy Hellmann,
Franz and Marie Louise Herzberg,
Fritz and Gertrud Hirsch,
Ernst and Martha Hirsch,
Adolf and Hilda Hochstim,
Franz Josef and Vally Honig,
Josef Franz and Hermin Hupka,
Bruno Jellinek,
Otto and Fanny Kallir-Nirenstein,
Siegfried and Irma Kantor,
Emil and Helene Karpeles-Schenker,
Irma Ketschendorf,
Benedikt and Emilie Klapholz,
Norbert and Serafine Klinger,
Isidor and Camilla Kohn,
Nettie Königstein,
Felix Kornfeld
Gottlieb and Mathilde Kraus
Wilhelm Viktor and Marianne Krausz,
Hans Krüger,
Moriz and Elsa Kuffner,
Stephan Kuffner,
Wilhelm and Camilla Kuffner,
Adele Kulka,
Wally Kulka,
Oscar L. Ladner,
Richard and Anna Lanyi,
Georg and Hermine Lasus,
August and Serena Lederer,
Rosa Lemberger,
Mathilde Lieben,
Leon and Antonie Lilienfeld,
Markus and Melanie Lindenbaum
, Fritz and Helene Löhner
, Arthur and Marianne Lourié,
Wilhelm and Fanny Löw,
Oscar and Irma Löwenstein,
Alma Mahler-Werfel,
Fritz Mandl,
Stephan and Else Mautner,
Edmund and Adele Mendelsohn,
Franz Mendelsohn,
Alice Meyszner,
Max and Hertha Morgenstern,
Aranka Munk,
Oskar and Therese Neumann,
Richard and Alice Neumann,
Gabriele Oppenheimer,
Ignatz and Gisela Pick,
Moric and Irma Pick,
Otto and Katharina Pick,
Ernst and Gisela Pollack,
Albert Pollak,
Robert and Adele Pollak,
Leopold Popper-Podhragy,
Ernst and Ilse Popper-Podhragy,
Arthur and Agnes Prager,
Julius and Camilla Priester,
Leo Prister,
Alfred Quittner,
Amalie Redlich,
Anton and Marie Redlich,
Paul and Therese Regenstreif,
Oskar and Malvine Reichel,
Arnim and Rosa Reichmann,
Heinrich Reif,
Andreas and Luise Reisinger,
Franz and Anna Riedl,
Heinrich and Berta Rieger, (Heinrich died in Theresienstadt camp in 1942)
Max Roden and Sascha Kronburg,
Heinrich and Ella Rothberger,
Moriz Rothberger,
Alphonse and Clarice Rothschild,
Louis Rothschild,
Franz Rothschild,
Franz Ruhmann,
Emma Schiff-Suvero,
Gustav and Louise Schoenberg,
Ludwig and Gertrude Schüller,
Eduard and Gisela Schweinburg,
Arnold and Margit Löffler,
Elkan and Abraham Silberman,
Josef and Louise Simon,
Marianne Singer,
Alfred and Irmgard Sonnenfeld,
Valentine Springer,
Jenny Steiner,
Klara Steiner,
Paul and Nora Stiasny
, Georg Terramare and Erni Terrel,
Alfons and Marie Thorsch,
Siegfried and Antonia Trebitsch,
Alexander and Irma Weiner,
Leopold Weinstein
,Josefine Winter,
Paul Wittgenstein,
Fritz and Annie Wolff-Knize,
Frank and Mary Wooster,
Alexander and Luise Zemlinsky,
Paul Zsolnay,
Fritz and Trude Zuckerkandl
