Objects housed in the collections of the Jewish Museum in Prague (hereinafter referred to as “the Museum”) that were taken from individuals in the period between 29 September 1938 and 4 May 1945 (the period of Nazi occupation) as a result of transfers of ownership which were declared invalid by Presidential Decree No. 5/1945 Coll. or by Act No. 128/1946 Coll. and which, as of 30 September 1994, with the exception of objects listed in Article 2 of these terms (hereinafter referred to as “objects”), were in the ownership of the Museum shall be transferred free of charge into the ownership of the individual who owned them prior to dispossession ( hereinafter referred to as “the original owner”).

If this person has died or has been certified dead, the natural persons listed below (in order of precedence) are eligible to request the voluntary transfer of title to the object(s):
 

• an heir who acquired the entire inheritance in accordance with a will that was submitted in the course of inheritance proceedings
• an heir who acquired the object(s) in question in accordance with a will
• the original owner’s child/children and spouse who shared his/her inheritance equally; in the event that a child of the original owner has died, his/her portion shall be shared equally among his/her children or, if they are not alive, by his/her grandchildren,
• the parents of the original owner,
• the brothers and sisters of the original owner; in the event that one of these has died, the latter’s entitlement passes on to his/her children

It is not possible to assert a claim with respect to the children's drawings which originated in the Terezín Ghetto between 1941-1945 since these had not been subject to unlawful confiscation.
 

The conveyance of an object or objects in accordance with the previous article shall be made free of charge by the Museum on the basis of a written application from the original owner or person listed in Article 1 of these Terms (hereinafter referred to as “application”) that is posted or delivered in person to the headquarters of the Museum at U Staré školy 3, Prague 1.
 

The receipt of every application shall be reported by carrying the delivery date and information regarding the object in question on the website of the Jewish Museum in Prague and, if need be, in the next newsletter of the Museum and the monthly newspaper Rosh Chodesh.
 

A decision regarding applications from persons listed in Article (1) with respect to a single object shall be made after the expiry of one year after the receipt of the first application being reported. Applications delivered at a later date shall not be taken into consideration.
 

Books in the library collection of the Jewish Museum in Prague (hereinafter referred to as “the Museum”) that were taken from individuals in the period between 29 September 1938 and 4 May 1945 as a result of transfers of ownership which were declared invalid by Presidential Decree No. 5/1945 Coll. or by Act No. 128/1946 Coll. and which, as of 30 September 1994, with the exception of objects listed in Articles 2 and 5 of these Terms (hereinafter referred to as “objects”), were in the ownership of the Museum shall be transferred free of charge into the ownership of the individual who owned them prior to dispossession (hereinafter referred to as “the original owner”).
 

If this person has died or has been certified dead, the natural persons listed below (in order of precedence) are eligible to request the  voluntary transfer of title to the book(s):
 

• an heir who acquired the entire inheritance in accordance with a will that was submitted in the course of inheritance proceedings
• an heir who acquired the book(s) in question in accordance with a will
• the original owner’s child/children and spouse who shared his/her inheritance equally; in the event that a child of the original owner has died, his/her portion shall be shared equally among his/her children or, if they are not alive, by his/her grandchildren,
• the parents of the original owner,
• the brothers and sisters of the original owner; in the event that one of these has died, the latter’s entitlement passes on to his/her children

The conveyance of an object or objects in accordance with the previous article shall be made free of charge by the Museum on the basis of a written application from the original owner or another applicant listed in Article 1 of these Terms (hereinafter referred to as “application”) that is posted or delivered in person to the headquarters of the Museum at U Staré školy 3, Prague 1.
 

The receipt of every application shall be reported by carrying the delivery date and information regarding the book(s) in question on the website of the Jewish Museum in Prague.

A decision regarding applications from persons listed in Article (1) with respect to a book or books shall be made after the expiry of one year after the receipt of the first application being reported. Applications delivered at a later date shall not be taken into consideration.

In order to deal with an application it is essential that the applicant should furnish credible proof showing that he was the owner of the book(s) in question, or, alternatively, that the owner of this book or these books was his/her spouse, ancestor, parents, brother or sister, or the testator who bequeathed the property to the applicant. If the book(s) was (were) originally owned by an ancestor of the applicant, the application must be supported by evidence showing the applicant’s family connection to the original owner (birth/marriage/death certificates etc.). If the applicant inherited the book(s) from the original owner, the application must be supported by evidence showing that he/she succeeded to the property in question.

An application will not be complied with if the requested book(s) is (are) found to contain records of ownership for more than one person, and if it is not possible to determine who was the original sole owner of the book(s).

An application will be not complied with if the requested book(s) is (are) found to contain records of ownership (such as marks, signatures or stamps) pertaining to a corporate owner–legal person, in addition to an individual’s record of ownership, or if it is clear from other documents or evidence that the book(s) in question was (were) owned by a company at the time it was taken or acquired by the Museum. Of the books which, in addition to an individual's record of ownership, also contain an inventory number of the Museum’s 'German Catalogue', only books where the ‘Treuhandstelle’ is given as the collection point or where it is explicitly stated on the relevant catalogue card that the original owner was an individual may be considered for transfer of asset(s).

An application may be complied with only if the transfer of the requested book(s) is not prevented by the legislation of the Czech Republic in force at the time the application is assessed.
 

Applications properly submitted within the time-limit stated in Article 2 shall be assessed by an Expert Panel for Property Transfers from the Collections of the Jewish Museum in Prague appointed by the Museum Director on the basis of a decision of the Museum Board. The results of their assessment shall be presented to the Museum Board, which shall make a decision regarding the application within the shortest possible time-frame.

Under these terms, it is not possible to file a claim for the transfer of books owned in the past by legal persons, regardless of whether the current legal successors of such owners are individuals or legal persons.

A written appeal against a decision rejecting an application may be presented within 15 days of the delivery of the decision to the Supervisory Body of the Museum for assessment regarding the correctness of the decision. The Supervisory Body shall present the Museum Board with its final assessment regarding the compliance of the Board’s decision with the Museum’s statutes, its founder’s deed, these terms and generally binding legal regulations. On the basis of this assessment, the Museum Board may revoke its original decision.