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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

Dehmel, Regine., et al. Juedischer Buchbesitz Als Raubgut : Zweites Hannoversches Symposium / Im Auftrag Der Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek - Niedersaechsische Landesbibliothek Und Der Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz Herausgegeben Von Regine Dehnel ; Gefoerdert Von Der Beauftragten Der Bundesregierung Fuer Kultur Und Medien. Klostermann, 2006.

Edsel, Robert M., and Witter, Bret. The Monuments Men : Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History / Robert M. Edsel with Bret Witter. 1st trade ed., 2010.

Mehring, Walter, et al. The Lost Library : The Autobiography of a Culture / Translated by Richard and Clara Winston. 1st ed., Bobbs-Merrill, 1951.

Raven, James. Lost Libraries : the Destruction of Great Book Collections since Antiquity / Edited by James Raven. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

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

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

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

Schidorsky, Dov. Geṿilim niśrafim ṿe-Otiyot porḥot : Toldotehem Shel Osfe Sefarim ṿe-Sifriyot Be-Erets-Yiśraʼel ṿe-Nisyonot Le-Hatsalat śeridehem Be-Eropah Le-aḥar Ha-Shoʼah / Dov Shidorsḳi. Hotsaʼat Sefarim ʻa. Sh. Y.L. Magnes, Ha-Universiṭah Ha-ʻIvrit, 2008.