Jewish cultural property and its postwar recovery
TitreJewish cultural property and its postwar recovery
Auteur
Call numberP940.5318/060
N° d'objet04139J
Lieu de publicationWashington, District of Columbia, United States
Année de publication
2003
MatérielOuvrage à feuillets mobiles
NotesArticle from the paper 'Confiscation of Jewish property in Europe 1933-1945' pp127-142
Description
Seeligmann was a renowned Dutch bibiliographer and historian. After the invasion of the Netherlands, the Nazis confiscated his library. In 1945 it was discovered in Czechoslovakia. Traces the transfer of Nazi looted Jewish book collections to Czechoslovakia and their salvage by the Hebrew university and other Jewish organizations after the war.