“We are Working Against the Clock” – Interview with Pia Schölnberger, Director of the Austrian Commission for Provenance Research

While the former conducts research into the origins of cultural assets and tries to locate the heirs of such objects looted or confiscated from persons who were mainly persecuted by the Nazi regime because of their Jewish origin, the latter provides legal interpretations and adopts decisions based on the Commission's research, which are submitted as recommendations for restitution to the responsible federal minister.In her position, and during her former work, Dr Schölnberger has acquired extensive experience in a great variety of cases requiring provenance