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Walls Around The Plunder of Warsaw Jewry during World War II and Its Aftermath
Itamar Levin, Rachel Neiman
Foreword by Dina Porat
Book Code: C7649
ISBN: 0-275-97649-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97649-1
304 pages, photos, tables
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 5/30/2004
List Price: $76.95 (UK Sterling Price: £44.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • The book under review presents the thesis that theft of Jewish property was not a by-product of genocide, but rather a direct motivation for it....[L]evin argues that had Jewish property not been stolen and Jews prevented from earning wages, the Germans could not have brought about the deaths of so many in the Warsaw Ghetto before embarking on a campaign of systematic genocide. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.
    —Choice     January 2005
Description: On the eve of the Holocaust, Warsaw was the home of the biggest Jewish community in Europe, some 350,000 Jews. They were a third of the city's total population and owned up to 40% of its land. The Nazis systematically seized their property even before the Ghetto was established and rendered the Jews penniless and unable to work. Thus tens of thousands starved to death or died of infectious diseases. As Levin makes clear, the plunder of Jewish property became not only a product of murder, but also a tool of murder. Because Hitler decided only in the Spring of 1941 on the mass murder of the Jews, the Warsaw case demonstrates--at least in retrospect--how the seizure of property killed even before the first gas chambers were built. After the Holocaust, the Communist regime in Poland took advantage of the fact that 90% of the country's Jews had been murdered to nationalize their private and communal property without paying any compensation. The vast majority of this property has never been returned to their lawful owners despite increasing international efforts to bring this about.
Table of Contents:
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword by Dina Porat
  • Introduction
  • Chapters 1-7
  • Notes
LC Card Number: 2003062440
LCC Class: D810
Dewey Class: 940
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