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Stolen legacy : Nazi theft and the quest for justice at Krausenstrasse 17/18, Berlin / Dina Gold ; with a foreword by ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat.

Title
Stolen legacy : Nazi theft and the quest for justice at Krausenstrasse 17/18, Berlin / Dina Gold ; with a foreword by ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat.
Author
Gold, Dina.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : American Bar Association, 2015.

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors
Eizenstat, Stuart.
Description
xxvii, 278 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 24 cm
Subject
  • Gold, Dina > Trials, litigation, etc
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Germany > Economic aspects
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Reparations > Germany
  • Jewish property > Berlin
  • Jews > Germany > Claims
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Claims
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-251) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
I've come to claim my family's building -- H. Wolff -- My mother's birth -- Well-heeled nomads -- The gathering storm -- Palestine -- Entjudung (the removal of Jews from the German economy) -- "What would I do without the Lüneberger Heide?" -- Making her own way -- After the war : love and marriage -- Those who survived and those who did not. -- A question of ownership -- My life in Britain -- What had my grandmother once told me? -- Our investigation begins -- Lawyers and wills -- The smoking gun -- Proving the line of inheritance -- The Reichsbahn's motive -- Claims and counterclaims -- Who's who in Nazi Germany -- Dr. Hamann and the Victoria Insurance Company -- Back to Berlin : the frustration grows -- The formal claim -- Getting their own back -- Light at the end of the tunnel -- Negotiating a price and dividing the payout. -- New archives, new answers -- The evidence from Sachsenhausen -- The fate of Dresdener Strasse 97 -- Fritz's life during the war -- Exit from the Reich -- Deutsche bank -- The Victoria's history -- The terrible truth about Kurt Hamann -- Coda
ISBN
  • 9781627229708 (hbk.)
  • 1627229701 (hbk.)
LCCN
^^2015016145