Jean-François Lefranc (Q3823)
Jean-François Lefranc was a French art dealer, former reparations official, who helped aryanize a number of Jewish collections and galleries in wartime Paris and instigated the seizure and dispersal of the Schloss collection.
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Jean-François Lefranc was a French art dealer, former reparations official, who helped aryanize a number of Jewish collections and galleries in wartime Paris and instigated the seizure and dispersal of the Schloss collection.
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Lefranc represented the interests of the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (CGQJ) as an administrateur provisoire of Jewish assets and also promoted the interests of Nazi officials in securing hidden Jewish collections. From 1942 to the end of 1943, Lefranc mobilized French and German resources to hunt down and seize the Schloss collection from which he profited. He was prosecuted at wa
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