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Holocaust restitution : perspectives on the litigation and its legacy / edited by Michael J. Bazyler and Roger P. Alford.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holocaust survivors--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Reparations.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- World War, 1939-1945--Claims.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (393 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2006]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Holocaust Restitution is the first volume to present the Holocaust restitution movement directly from the viewpoints of the various parties involved in the campaigns and settlements. Now that the Holocaust restitution claims are closed, this work enjoys the benefits of hindsight to provide a definitive assessment of the movement. From lawyers and State Department officials to survivors and heads of key institutes involved in the negotiations, the volume brings together the central players in the Holocaust restitution movement, both pro and con. The volume examines the claims against European banks and against Germany and Austria relating to forced labor, insurance claims, and looted art claims. It considers their significance, their legacy, and the moral issues involved in seeking and receiving restitution. Contributors: Roland Bank, Michael Berenbaum, Lee Boyd, Thomas Buergenthal, Monica S. Dugot, Stuart E. Eizenstat, Eric Freedman and Richard Weisberg, Si Frumkin, Peter Hayes, Kai Henning, Roman Kent, Lawrence Kill and Linda Gerstel, Edward R. Korman, Otto Graf Lambsdorff, David A. Lash and Mitchell A. Kamin, Hannah Lessing and Fiorentina Azizi, Burt Neuborne, Owen C. Pell, Morris Ratner and Caryn Becker, Shimon Samuels, E. Randol Schoenberg, William Z. Slany, Howard N. Spiegler, Deborah Sturman, Robert A. Swift, Gideon Taylor, Lothar Ulsamer, Melvyn I. Weiss, Roger M. Witten, Sidney Zabludoff, and Arie Zuckerman.
- Contents:
- International law and the Holocaust / Thomas Buergenthal
- The State Department, Nazi gold, and the search for Holocaust assets / William Z. Slany
- Confronting history : restitution and the historians / Michael Berenbaum
- Holocaust litigation and human rights jurisprudence / Robert A. Swift
- A tale of two cities : administering the Holocaust settlements in Brooklyn and Berlin / Burt Neuborne
- How Swiss banks and German companies came to terms with the wrenching legacies of the Holocaust and World War II : a defense perspective / Roger M. Witten
- Why won't these SOBs give me my money? : a survivor's perspective / Si Frumkin
- A litigator's postscript to the Swiss banks and Holocaust litigation settlements : how justice was served / Melvyn I. Weiss
- Rewriting the Holocaust history of the Swiss banks : a growing scandal / Edward R. Korman
- The French Holocaust-era claims process / Eric Freedman and Richard Weisberg
- The French bank Holocaust settlement / Shimon Samuels
- Unholy profits : Holocaust restitution and the Vatican bank / Lee Boyd
- Where morality meets money / Gideon Taylor
- The negotiations on compensation for Nazi forced laborers / Otto Graf Lambsdorff
- German economy and the Foundation Initiative : an act of solidarity for victims of national socialism / Lothar Ulsamer
- Processing claims for slave and forced labor : expediency versus accuracy? / Roland Bank
- Corporate profits and the Holocaust : a dissent from the monetary argument / Peter Hayes
- It's not about the money : a survivor's perspective on the German Foundation Initiative / Roman Kent
- Germany's reexamination of its past through the lens of the Holocaust litigation / Deborah Sturman
- Austria confronts her past / Hannah Lessing and Fiorentina Azizi
- Holocaust-era insurance claims : legislative, judicial, and executive remedies / Lawrence Kill and Linda Gerstel
- The road to compensation of life insurance policies : the Foundation law and ICHEIC / Kai Hennig
- ICHEIC : excellent concept but inept implementation / Sidney Zabludoff
- The Holocaust Claims Processing Office : New York State's approach to resolving Holocaust-era art claims / Monica S. Dugot
- Portrait of Wally : the United States government's role in recovering Holocaust looted art / Howard N. Spiegler
- Whose art is it anyway? / E. Randol Schoenberg
- The unfinished business of the unfinished business of World War II / Stuart E. Eizenstat
- Poor justice : Holocaust restitution and forgotten, indigent survivors / David A. Lash and Mitchell A. Kamin
- The Holocaust restitution enterprise : an Israeli perspective / Arie Zuckerman
- Historical reparation claims : the defense perspective / Owen C. Pell
- The legacy of Holocaust class action suits : have they broken ground for other cases of historical wrongs? / Morris Ratner and Caryn Becker.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781479845620
- 1479845620
- OCLC:
- 1224278615
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