ISBN:
9780198787129
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019878712X
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 197 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
Year of publication:
2017
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Fogg, Shannon Lee Stealing home
DDC:
909.04924
Keywords:
Holocaust survivors Social conditions 20th century
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Reparations
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Confiscations
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Jewish property
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World War, 1939-1945 Confiscations and contributions
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Refugee property Refugees
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Frankreich
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Juden
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Hausrat
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Herausgabe
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Geschichte 1942-1947
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Frankreich Service de Restitution des Biens des Victimes des Lois et Mesures de Spoliation
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Geschichte
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Frankreich
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Juden
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Restitution
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Wiedergutmachung
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Geschichte 1942-1947
Abstract:
Between 1942 and 1944 the Germans sealed and completely emptied at least 38,000 Parisian apartments. The majority of the furnishings and other household items came from 'abandoned' Jewish apartments and were shipped to Germany. After the war, Holocaust survivors returned to Paris to discover their homes completely stripped of all personal possessions or occupied by new inhabitants. In 1945, the French provisional government established a Restitution Service to facilitate the return of goods to wartime looting victims. Though time-consuming, difficult, and often futile, thousands of people took part in these early restitution efforts. Stealing Home demonstrates that attempts to reclaim one's furnishings and personal possessions were key in efforts to rebuild Jewish political and social inclusion in the war's wake. Far from remaining silent, Jewish survivors sought recognition of their losses, played an active role in politics, and turned to both the government and each other for aid.0Drawing on memoirs, oral histories, restitution claims, social workers' reports, newspapers, and government documents, 'Stealing Home' provides a social history of the period that focuses on Jewish survivors' everyday lives during the lengthy process of restoring citizenship and property rights. 0
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