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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.

Locations of Library Stamps from the Offenbach Archival Depot

Europe, general

"And It All but Disappeared" : The Nazi Seizure of Jewish Assets / Sidney Zabludoff.  Jerusalem: Institute of the World Jewish Congress, 1998.

The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis / David E. Fishman. Lebanon, NH: ForeEdge, an imprint of University Press of New England, 2017.

The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance / Anders Rydell; translated by Henning Koch. New York: Viking, 2017.

Conference on Restoration of Continental Jewish Museums, Libraries and Archives, London, 1943 / Opening Address by Cecil Roth. London: n.p., 1943.

The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation / edited by Jonathan Rose. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.

Juedischer Buchbesitz als Raubgut: Zweites Hannoversches Symposium / Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 2006.

Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since Antiquity / edited by James Raven. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

The Lost Library: The Autobiography of a Culture / translated by Richard and Clara Winston. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951.

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History / Robert M. Edsel with Bret Witter. New York: Center Street / Hachette Book Group, 2010.

A Mortuary of Books: The Rescue of Jewish Culture After the Holocaust / Elisabeth Gallas; translated from the German by Alex Skinner. 

Stolen Words: The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Books / Mark Glickman. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016.

גווילים נשרפים ואותיות פורחות : תולדותיהם של אוספי ספרים וספריות בארץ ישראל וניסיונות להצלת שרידיהם באירופה לאחר השואה / Dov Schidorsky. Yerushalayim: Hotsaʼat sefarim ʻa. sh. Y.L. Magnes, ha-Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit, 2008.