Concerns about safeguarding the Schloss collection

The Schloss family worried about a possible military conflict involving France which might threaten their physical safety and that of the collection. The family wanted to place the collection out of harm’s way. Lucien Schloss, his sister Juliette Schloss and her husband, Doctor Paul Emile Weil, “médecin-chef de l’hopital Tenon’ in Paris played a key role in deciding on how to best safeguard the paintings and where they should be stored. According to Albert Marcel Renaud, a director of the Banque Jordaan, Dr. Weil contacted Mr. Bonn, the only Jewish board member of Banque Jordaan, to ask if the bank could shelter 10 crates which contained Schloss family’s 333 paintings left by Adolphe Schloss. Bonn agreed to safeguard the crates from the Schloss family in the Banque Jordaan vaults at the Château de Chambon (Laguenne, Corrèze).