Museums and auction houses rarely mention that a name in a provenance of an artwork corresponds to a person who was robbed and murdered by the Nazis or a Jewish refugee fleeing to escape the Holocaust.
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This Wikidata Sparql query displays a few of the art collector whose names are absolutely to be considered red flags in provenances because they either died in the Holocaust or were forced to flee to survive.
Wikidata query run 18 May 2024: Short link: https://w.wiki/A7pr
Table: Art Collectors and Dealers who died in the Holocaust or were forced to flee
| Wikidata url | Name | Description | Born | Died | Info |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q114495002 | David Cender | Polish Jewish violin maker, art collector and Holocaust survivor (died 1966 in France) | France | Holocaust survivor | |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q125246074 | Gilbert Levy | French Jewish art collector of porcelain murdered at Auschwitz (1884-1944) | Holocaust victim | ||
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q115959327 | Käthe Kellner | Austrian Jewish art collector and Holocaust victim (1884-1942) | Holocaust victim | ||
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q119442687 | Paul Schüler | German Jewish art collector persecuted by the Nazis (1876 - estim. 1942) | Bochum | Riga Ghetto | Holocaust victim |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q78425495 | Viktor Oppenheimer | holocaust victim, b. 1877-05-02 | Rousínov | Oświęcim | Holocaust victim |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1896897 | Marianne Schmidl | Austrian ethnologist murdered in the Holocaust by the Nazis because of her Jewish origins (1890-1942) | Berchtesgaden | Holocaust victim | |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q95479467 | Emil Freund | art collector and holocaust victim, b. 1886-04-29 | Łódź | Holocaust victim | |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q87857 | Fritz Grünbaum | Austrian cabaret artist, art collector and Holocaust victim (1880–1941) | Brno | Dachau concentration camp | Holocaust victim |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2546745 | Walter Westfeld | German Jewish art collector and Holocaust victim | Herford | Auschwitz | Holocaust victim |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q106672151 | Richard Lányi | Austrian Jewish publisher and art collector murdered in the Holocaust (1884-1942) | Vienna | Auschwitz | Holocaust victim |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q125938280 | Arnold Kolb | Skalica | Maly Trostenets | Holocaust victim | |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28192906 | Emanuel Kohn | German Jewish painter and art dealer (1863-1942), murdered in the Holocaust | Munich | Theresienstadt concentration camp | Holocaust victim |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6202160 | Jindřich Waldes | Czech entrepreneur and art collector murdered in Holocaust (1878-1941) | Prague | Havana | Holocaust victim |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q63110939 | Wilhelm Kurtz | Austrian art dealer and Boxer (1897-1942), murdered in the Holocaust | Linz | Auschwitz | Holocaust victim |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q94915454 | Siegfried Blumenthal | holocaust victim, b. 1886-02-27 | Orlová | Theresienstadt concentration camp | Holocaust victim |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q106814729 | Armin Reichmann | Vienna | Maly Trostenets | Holocaust victim | |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q27518263 | Gustav Rüdenberg | German Jewish bookseller and art collector , holocaust victim (1868-1941) | Vlotho | Riga Ghetto | Holocaust victim |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q110407277 | Leon Seyffers | Belgian art dealer (1885-about 1944 Auschwitz) | Anderlecht | Auschwitz | Holocaust victim |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6202160 | Jindřich Waldes | Czech entrepreneur and art collector murdered in Holocaust (1878-1941) | Nemyšl | Havana | Holocaust victim |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q104544920 | Adele Fischel | Viennese Holocaust victim, and art collector b. 1875-05-09 - 1943 | Vienna | Theresienstadt concentration camp | Holocaust victim |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1818485 | Leo Bendel | Austrian Jewish entrepreneur and art collector | Strzyżów | Buchenwald concentration camp | Holocaust victim |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q78425495 | Viktor Oppenheimer | holocaust victim, b. 1877-05-02 | Rousínov | Warsaw | Holocaust victim |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q104701531 | Alfred Harding | Viennese Jewish art dealer, murdered in Holocaust holocaust victim, b. 1900-03-13 | Vienna | Lublin-Majdanek concentration camp | Holocaust victim |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14777672 | Ludwig Pollak | Jewish Czech-Austrian classical archaeologist and art collector (1868-1943) murdered in the Holocaust | Prague | Oświęcim | Holocaust victim |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1818485 | Leo Bendel | Austrian Jewish entrepreneur and art collector | Strzyżów | Buchenwald concentration camp | Holocaust victim |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q124217551 | Sam Bernhard Levie | Dutch Jewish art collector murdered in the Holocaust (1887-1943) | Groningen | Sobibór Extermination Camp | Holocaust victim |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q105655393 | Moritz Rosenthal | German Jewish art collector, holocaust victim, b. 1883-04-16 | Holocaust victim | ||
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14777672 | Ludwig Pollak | Jewish Czech-Austrian classical archaeologist and art collector (1868-1943) murdered in the Holocaust | Prague | Auschwitz | Holocaust victim |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1361426 | Ludwig Katzenellenbogen | Jewish industrialist, refugee, Holocaust victim, husband of Tilla Durieux | Krotoszyn | Sachsenhausen concentration camp | Holocaust victim |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q105354608 | Felix Ganz | German Jewish businessman, art collector, holocaust victim, b. 1869-09-27 | Mainz | Auschwitz | Holocaust victim |
| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q777344 |
