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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.

Report of the Library and Reading Room 1942-1944, 1944. Abraham Sutzkever-Szmerke Kaczerginski Vilna Ghetto Collection, Box 6, Folder 370 (RG 223.1). Courtesy of YIVO.

Report of the Library and Reading Room 1942-1944 with colorful pie charts and hand drawn graphics

Books about Libraries in Ghettos

Bücher und Bibliotheken in Ghettos und Lagern, 1933-1945 / Krause, Rolf D., et al. Hannover: Laurentius, 1991.

Hunger for the Printed Word: Books and Libraries in the Jewish Ghettos of Nazi-Occupied Europe / David Shavit. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1997.

Jewish Libraries in the Polish Ghettos During the Nazi Era / David Shavit. University of Chicago, 1982.