International Holocaust-Era Assets: Glossary of Terms
Suggested Search Terms and Concepts
These are lists of common terms and concepts that researchers are likely to encounter when searching through the international repositories. These terms are frequently found in the records, but do not reflect all potential search terms or concepts. Each institution has provided a list of search terms in the national language of the institution.
English (U.S.) | English (U.K.) | French | German | Hebrew |
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ALIU [Art Looting Investigation Unit] | ALIU | |||
Allied Control Authority | Alliierte Kontrollbehörden | |||
Allied Control Council | Alliierter Kontrollrat | |||
Alt Aussee | Alt Aussee | |||
American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas [Roberts Commission] | Roberts Kommission | |||
Archives | Archive | |||
Art Looting | Kunstraub | |||
Art Looting Investigation Unit | Kunstraub Untersuchungs-einheit | |||
Artists (Artist) | Künstler | |||
Aryanization | Arisierung | |||
Assets | Vermögen | |||
Auction House | Auktionshaus | |||
Auctions | Auktion | |||
Berchtesgaden | Berchtesgaden | |||
Black Market | Schwarzer Markt | |||
Blocking | Sperrung | |||
Books | Bücher | |||
Carinhall | Carinhall | |||
Central Collecting point | Zentraler Sammelpunkt | |||
Claims | Ansprüche/Schäden | |||
Collections | Sammlungen | |||
Collectors | Sammler | |||
Confiscation | Beschlagnahme | |||
Consolidated Interrogation Report [CIR] | CIR | |||
Control Council | Kontrollrat | |||
Cultural Objects | Kulturgüter | |||
Cultural property | Kulturbesitz | |||
Dealers | Händler | |||
Degenerate Art | Entartete Kunst | |||
Detailed interrogation Report [DIR] | DIR | |||
Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg [ERR] | Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg [ERR] | |||
ERR [Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg] | ERR [Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg] | |||
External Assets | Fremdvermögen | |||
Fine Arts | Bildende Künste | |||
Flakturm | Flakturm | |||
Gallery, Galleries | Gallerie, Gallerien | |||
Goering | Goering | |||
Gold | Gold | |||
Hitler | Hitler | |||
Intelligence | Geheimdienst | |||
Internal Restitution | Interne Restitution | |||
Interrogation | Vernehmung | |||
Interzonal Exchange | Interzonale Austausch | |||
Inventories | Inventare | |||
Inventory Card | Inventarskarte | |||
Jeu de Paume Museum | Jeu de Paume Museum | |||
Jewelry | Schmuck | |||
Jewish Property | Jüdisches Vermögen | |||
Law (Laws) | Recht/Gesetz | |||
Library (libraries) | Bibliothek/Bücherei | |||
Linz collection | Linzer Sammlung | |||
Linz Museum | Linzer Museum | |||
Looted Art | Raubkunst/Beute-kunst | |||
Looting | Raub/Plünderung | |||
Mansucripts | Manuskript/Hand-schrift | |||
Marburg Central Collecting Point | Zentraler Sammelpunkt Marburg | |||
Merkers | Merkers | |||
MFA&A [Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives] | MFA&A | |||
Monuments | Denkmäler | |||
Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives [MFA&A] | Denkmäler | |||
Munich Central Collecting Point | Zentraler Sammelpunkt München | |||
Museum | Museum | |||
Music | Musik | |||
Musical | Musikal | |||
Neuschwanstein [Schloss Neuschwanstein] | Neuschwanstein [Schloss Neuschwanstein] | |||
Offenbach Archival Depot | Archivdepot Offenbach | |||
Painting | Gemälde | |||
Photograph | Fotographie | |||
Property Card | Besitzkarte | |||
Property Cards | Beseitzkarten | |||
Property Control | Vermögenskontrolle | |||
Provenance | Provenienz | |||
Receipts | Beleg | |||
Reparation | Reparation | |||
Repository | Ablage/Lagerstätte | |||
Restitution | Rückgabe | |||
Roberts Commission [American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas] | Roberts Kommission [American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas] | |||
Safehaven | Safehafen | |||
Salt Mines (Salt Mine) | Salzbergwerk(e) | |||
Schenker Company | Schenker Spedition | |||
Sculpture | Plastik/Skulptur | |||
Shipment [Shipment Receipts] | Sendung/Schiffs-ladung [Lieferbeleg] | |||
Targets | Ziele | |||
Vesting | Übertragung | |||
Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point | Zentraler Sammelpunkt Wiesbaden |