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Subject Guide: Book Looting During the Holocaust

Archival and library collection highlights found at the Center related to the looting and destruction of Jewish books during the Holocaust, and later restitution efforts.

Paintings by Norbert Troller depicting books in Theresienstadt, courtesy of LBI. 82.383 and 82.384

Paintings by Norbert Troller depicting rooms with books in Theresienstadt     Painting by Norbert Troller depicting a room in Theresienstad with a large rug and bookshelves on the right wall

Library Materials

Avenues of Intellectual Resistance in the Ghetto Theresienstadt: Escape through the Ghetto Central Library, Reading, Storytelling, and Lecturing / Miriam Intrator. Chapel Hill, NC, 2003. [e-resource]

Der Fuehrer Schenkt den Juden eine Stadt; Bilder, Impressionen, Reportagen, Dokumente / Käthe Starke. Berlin: Haude & Spener 1975.

Intrator, Miriam. People were literally starving for any kind of reading: The Theresienstadt Ghetto Central Library, 1942—1945. Library Trends 55 (3) Winter 2007: 513-522. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/3706  

We are Children Just the Same: Vedem, the Secret Magazine by the Boys of Terezín / selected and edited by Marie Ruth Křížková, Kurt Jiří Koutouč, and Zdeněk Ornest; translated from the Czech by R. Elizabeth Novak; edited by Paul R. Wilson; foreword by Václav Havel. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1995.

קראו לו חבר : עיתון הילדים ״קמרד״ מגטו טרזיינשטאט (טרזין), 3491־4491 / Yerushalayim: Yad ṿa-shem, 1997.

Books formerly from Ghettobücherei Theresienstadt at the Center

Ḥokhmah u-musar: Belehrung und Mahnung aus nachgelassenen Schriften / Rabbiner Dr. Salomon Breuer. Frankfurt a.M.: J. Kauffmann Verlag, 1930-1936.

Die Geschichte der Juden in der Oberpfalz, [Bd.] 3. Der Bezirk Rothenberg: Schnaittach, Ottensoos, Huettenbach, Forth / Magnus Weinberg. Sulzbuerg: Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1909.