Stealing home : looting, restitution, and reconstructing Jewish lives in France, 1942-1947
Between 1942 and 1944 the Germans sealed and completely emptied at least 38,000 Parisian apartments. The majority of the furnishings and other household items came from 'abandoned' Jewish apartments and were shipped to Germany. After the war, Holocaust survivors returned to Paris to discov...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Oxford New York : Oxford University Press,
2017
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| Schlagworte: | Holocaust survivors Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Confiscations Jewish property World War, 1939-1945 Refugee property Frankreich Juden Hausrat Herausgabe mehr... |
| Umfang: | xvi, 197 Seiten |
| Zusammenfassung: | Between 1942 and 1944 the Germans sealed and completely emptied at least 38,000 Parisian apartments. The majority of the furnishings and other household items came from 'abandoned' Jewish apartments and were shipped to Germany. After the war, Holocaust survivors returned to Paris to discover their homes completely stripped of all personal possessions or occupied by new inhabitants. In 1945, the French provisional government established a Restitution Service to facilitate the return of goods to wartime looting victims. Though time-consuming, difficult, and often futile, thousands of people took part in these early restitution efforts. Stealing Home demonstrates that attempts to reclaim one's furnishings and personal possessions were key in efforts to rebuild Jewish political and social inclusion in the war's wake. Far from remaining silent, Jewish survivors sought recognition of their losses, played an active role in politics, and turned to both the government and each other for aid.0Drawing on memoirs, oral histories, restitution claims, social workers' reports, newspapers, and government documents, 'Stealing Home' provides a social history of the period that focuses on Jewish survivors' everyday lives during the lengthy process of restoring citizenship and property rights. 0 |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [179]-192 Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| Beschreibung: | xvi, 197 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9780198787129 019878712X 9780191829192 0191829196 |