View source for Variant 1 - Banque Jordaan officials accused of conspiracy by Favier

Variant 1 - The Police des Questions Juives at Tulle declared to the personnel of the Banque Jordaan that they had conspired with the Schloss heirs to cloak and hide their art collection as a Jewish asset and did the same with other Jewish families. In order to address this problem, an administrateur provisoire for the Banque Jordaan would have to be appointed. That morning, Favier questioned Banque Jordaan officials who had come down from Paris as well as the local manager of the Banque Jordaan. He questioned Renaud, Cazaux and Tixier about the bank.  Mr. Ducass, the official who received the crates on August 20 1939, was also questioned. When asked why the crates bore other people’s names, Ducass and Volclair replied that Mr. Bonn, former chair of the board of the bank, had ordered Mr. Cazaux to do this. Renaud told Favier how Dr. Weil, brother-in-law of Schloss, went to see Dr. Bonn (Jewish, former chair of the board of the bank), asking him if his bank could shelter 10 crates containing the collection. They were moved to Laguenne and deposited at the bank’s vaults. Fake names were placed on the crates to avoid detection as Jewish assets. Renaud denies knowing Schloss and only Bonn had anything to do with him. The crates under the name of Da Silva were allegedly the property of Bonn and André Rottembourg, both exiled in Brazil. They all left at 12:00pm. Mr. Jean Petit was introduced as the newly-appointed Administrateur Provisoire of Banque Jordaan. The bank managers protested, arguing that Mr. Bonn had quit as chair of the board in October 1940 and as a director in May 1941 because of his Jewish faith and there was no one else was Jewish on the board. Lefranc had delegated his responsibilities of ’administrateur provisoire” to Petit, who, presumably, felt unqualified to carry out such a mandate since his expertise was limited to regulating bordellos.