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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.

Portuguese Synagogue Amsterdam AR 790 F3569, courtesy of LBI

Library Materials

Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana; Dept. of Hebraica and Judaica, University Library of Amsterdam. / An Introd. for Foreign Researchers. 1987.

Hoogewoud, F. J., and Leistra, J.E.P. The Return of Looted Collections (1946-1996) : an Unfinished Chapter ; Proceedings of an International Symposium to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the Return of Dutch Book Collections from Germany in 1946, Amsterdam, 15 and 16 April 1996 / [Organized at the Initiative of F.J. Hoogewoud and J.E.P. Leistra]. The Symposium, 1997.

Offenberg, A. K., et al. Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana : Treasures of Jewish Booklore : Marking the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Leeser Rosenthal, 1794-1994 / Edited by Adri K. Offenberg, Emile G.L. Schrijver and F.J. Hoogewoud, with the Collaboration of Lies Kruijer-Poesiat ; Colour Photographs by Iman Heystek. Amsterdam University Press, 1994.

Portugees Israëlietisch Seminarium Ets Haim . Livraria Montezinos. Spiritual Heritage, Shimmering Treasures : Unknown Collections of the Portuguese Synagogue. Ets Haim Library-Livraria Montezinos : Portuguese-Jewish Community Amsterdam, 2004.

Rosenthal, Eliezer, and Amsterdam. Systematische Catalogus Van De Judaica Der Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana. Internationaal Antiquariat, 1936.

Schrijver, Emile G. L., and Warncke, Heide. 18 Highlights from Ets Haim : the Oldest Jewish Library in the World / Zutphen : WalburgPers. 2016.

Simon, Marita. Auf Transport! : Deutsche Stationen "Sichergestellter" Jüdischer Und Freimaurerischer Bibliotheken Aus Frankreich Und Den Niederlanden (1940-1949) / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek, Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek ; [Redaktion: Marita Simon]. 2005.

Weiser, R., et al. Me-Otsrot Sifriyat Ets-Hayim/Montezinos : Le-Yad Bet Ha-Midrash Ha-Yehudi Ha-Portugali "Ets Hayim", Amsterdam : Ta'arukhah / Bet Ha-Sefarim Ha-Leumi Veha-Universitai, Ulam Berman, Yerushalayim, Nisan 740.