Emmanuelle Polack

[1] Her maternal grandmother perished in the Buchenwald concentration camp, and her paternal grandfather had been held as a prisoner of war by the Nazis.

[2] She studied art history at the University of Paris, then doing master's degree work with Anne Grynberg and with André Kaspi at the Sorbonne.

She compiled and published the working diaries and inventories of Rose Valland from the Musée du Jeu de Paume from 1940 to 1945.

In 2019, she curated an exhibition at the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris[6] about the art market during the German occupation of France.

[7] In 2020, she was hired by Jean-Luc Martinez, director of the Musée du Louvre to verify the provenance of objects with a history of transactions that would have occurred between 1933 et 1945.