Language:
English
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Libraries & Culture; a Journal of Library History
Angaben zur Quelle:
33,4 (1998) 347-388
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Libraries
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Archives
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
World War, 1939-1945 Conscript labor
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Describes the confiscation of Jewish private, public, and institutional libraries by the Nazis, especially the RSHA and the Einsatzstab Rosenberg, with the intention of setting up research institutes for the study of Judaism. In Berlin the RSHA began organizing a large library made up of some of the most important of such confiscated collections. For handling the Hebrew and Yiddish materials, they used the forced labor of Jewish scholars. One of those who survived, Ernst Grumach, is the author of the two documents reprinted here in the German original and in English translation. The first, written apparently in 1946 for the purpose of facilitating restitution of the books to their original owners or to Jewish institutions, describes the methods of confiscation used by the Gestapo, the collections contained in the RSHA library, and the places to which they were presumably brought for safety from air raids when the RSHA evacuated Berlin. The second document, from February 1954, apparently details the grounds for claims for reparations on behalf of Grumach and others, who did slave labor under the harshest conditions, which many of their comrades did not survive.
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