Confronting the perpetrators : a history of the Claims Conference / Marilyn Henry ; foreword by Sir Martin Gilbert

Author:: Henry, Marilyn, 1932-
Published:: London ; Portland, OR : Vallentine Mitchell, 2007.
Physical Description:: xvi, 256 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents:

Confronting the perpetrators : Jewish material claims for Nazi atrocities -- Establishing the legal right to compensation : West German indemnification and restitution legislation -- From legal right to humanitarian aid : the Claims Conference Hardship Fund -- From East Berlin to Bonn : recovering Jewish assets from the German Democratic Republic -- "Would Anne Frank have been eligible?" : post-unification compensation -- The legacy of the dead : recovering heirless Jewish properties in the Former East Germany -- Surviving Vernichtung durch Arbeit : compensation for slave labour -- Confronting "first victim" : Jewish claims against Austria -- Sacred spending : the Claims Conference's institutional allocations -- The Claims Conference and fifty years of the Luxembourg Agreements.

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ISBN:

9780853036289 (hbk.)
9780853036296 (pbk.)
0853036284 (hbk.)
0853036292 (pbk.)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [246]-248) and index.

Source of Acquisition:

Harrisburg copy: Purchased with funds from the Permanent Endowment for the Holocaust and Genocide Collection for the Library at Penn State Harrisburg; 20067.

Endowment Note:

Permanent Endowment for the Holocaust and Genocide Collection for the Library at Penn State Harrisburg

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