Stealing home

by Fogg, Shannon

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Title Statements

Full title :Stealing home / Shannon Fogg.

Summary

"Between 1942 and 1944 the Germans sealed and completely emptied at least 38,000 Parisian apartments. The majority of the furnishings and other household items came from 'abandoned' Jewish apartments and were shipped to Germany. After the war, Holocaust survivors returned to Paris to discover their homes completely stripped of all personal possessions or occupied by new inhabitants. In 1945, the French provisional government established a Restitution Service to facilitate the return of goods to wartime looting victims. Though time-consuming, difficult, and often futile, thousands of people took part in these early restitution efforts. Stealing Home demonstrates that attempts to reclaim one's furnishings and personal possessions were key in efforts to rebuild Jewish political and social inclusion in the war's wake. Far from remaining silent, Jewish survivors sought recognition of their losses, played an active role in politics, and turned to both the government and each other for aid. Drawing on memoirs, oral histories, restitution claims, social workers' reports, newspapers, and government documents, 'Stealing Home' provides a social history of the period that focuses on Jewish survivors' everyday lives during the lengthy process of restoring citizenship and property rights."

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016.
Edition:1st edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780198787129, 019878712X
oclc:ocn972372506
LC Classification:DS135.F83
Dewey Decimal:940.53180944

Subjects

Biens des réfugiés -- Réfugiés Confiscations Confiscations -- France France Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Confiscat… Holocaust survivors -- Social conditions Holocaust survivors -- Social condition… Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Repara… Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- Réparations --… Jewish property Jewish property -- France Refugee property -- Refugees Survivants de l'Holocauste -- Condition… War reparations World War, 1939-1945 -- Confiscations a…