My Mother’s Holocaust Story: An Eighty-Year Search for Justice

This program is part of our 3rd Annual Author, Film, and Music Festival Series showcasing renowned speakers, authors, and musicians.
About this Event

Join us for an illustrated lecture exploring Ruth Fass-Isay’s survival of the Holocaust and the remarkable story of the Adelsberger family art collection, largely lost through Nazi persecution and forced sales. At the heart of the presentation is a painting attributed to Peter Paul Rubens, discovered decades later but still not returned to the family. Through family photographs, documents, and works of art, this powerful presentation examines loss, survival, restitution, and the continuing search for justice more than 80 years after the Holocaust.

Alfred Fass, a Holocaust restitution advocate and provenance researcher, has spent more than 20 years investigating Nazi-looted art, cultural property, financial assets, and archives. As a Second-Generation and heir to the Abraham Adelsberger Collection, Fass has worked on major restitution cases and collaborates with historians, archivists, lawyers, museums, governments, and heirs worldwide. A co-founder of Stitching Claimants for Claimants, Fass has lectured at leading institutions including NYU School of Law, the University of Bonn, and the German Lost Art Foundation.

Fass says, “Restitution is not only about recovering property. It is about restoring history, identity, and dignity.”

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