Beth Isaiah Synagogue

47 Surrey Street, Guelph, Ontario

We are pleased to present

Aaron M. Milrad, B.A., LL.B.

STOLEN ART AND HOLOCAUST CLAIMS

The lecture deals with Nazi Ideology and art, including justification for the looting, Hitler's plan for his own museum, his competition for art with Field Marshal Goering, the destruction of "degenerate art", the looting of Europe, the involvement of the Swiss, why it has taken so long for the return of looted art especially to Jewish families, the legal barriers, the restitution cases brought in France, Germany, Austria, America, Russia, Canada and various other countries including Israel and Hitler's plan for a "Jewish Museum" and why.

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Mr. Milrad is presently a member of the Board of Trustees of The International Foundation for Art Research in New York, the International Board of the Tel Aviv Museum, incoming Chair of the Museum Trustee Association (Washington D.C.) and is Chair of the Board of The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art.. As well, he was a former board member of the Art Gallery of Ontario, former President of Harbourfront Art Gallery, Toronto, the Koffler Gallery, Toronto, as well as a member of the board of the Contemporary Cultural Institute of the Royal Ontario Museum amongst other organizations.

AARON M. MILRAD is a member of Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP, a Canadian national law firm.. At Milner Casgrain he provides specialized legal services to clients across Canada, the USA and Internationally who are involved in the visual, performing and literary arts, music, publishing, media and multimedia areas.

He is a regular lecturer, speaker and commentator on the law and the arts at universities, business and legal conferences and seminars in Canada and the United States and has published numerous articles in his areas of expertise for Canadian, British and American publications.

Refreshments will be served following the lecture.

The evening promises to be most enlightening and educational.

Your attendance and support of these free lectures
is very much appreciated. We hope to see you there.