Neglected witnesses: The fate of Jewish ceremonial objects during the Second World War and after

Discusses the fate of Jewish ceremonial objects used during synagogue services and in private households. Like other cultural artifacts, ceremonial objects were silent witnesses to a historical period of profound injustice. In this book, museum professionals - from Amsterdam, Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Frankfurt, Warsaw, and Los Angeles - along with a number of other researchers, tell the story of these objects for the first time: their looting, their rediscovery, the difficult process of restitution, and their worldwide dispersion after the war to locations that often remain unknown. Within the context of European history, the articles explore the complex web of interests and relationships between the victims, the perpetrators, the Allies, and the Axis countries.