The Committee has advised the Minister to restitute three Chinese covered vases and a carafe with stopper from the NK Collection to the heirs of Louis Morpurgo. The Committee established that items from the Morpurgo art dealership’s trading stock were sold, looted and plundered on a large scale during the occupation. Louis and Lion Morpurgo were able to continue their business for a while after the German invasion. But they too fell victim to anti-Jewish measures and had to cease their art trading activities in the autumn of 1941.

Hitler viewed the Order of Freemasons as an ‘enemy of the people' and a Jewish conspiracy. The Order was banned shortly after his rise to power in Germany. The ban in the Netherlands followed in September 1940. Possessions belonging to the Order of Freemasons were systematically stolen and sold under duress from May 1940 onwards. Lodges (local associations) were liquidated throughout the country.

Gosschalk was a Jewish artist, collector, restorer and dealer. In 1943 he and his sister were included in the Barneveld group and deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp via Westerbork transit camp. He remained there until the liberation. Gosschalk wrote in post-war correspondence with the SNK that the lion's share of his collection was lost during the occupation. His recollections were severely damaged as a result of his wartime experiences. He could only briefly describe a few lost works.