Walls around : the plunder of Warsaw Jewry during World War II and its aftermath / Itamar Levin ; translated by Rachel Neiman ; foreword by Dina Porat

Publication | Library Call Number: D810.C8 L48513 2004

Uniform Title: Shod ṿa-shever. English
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Levin, Itamar.
Published: Westport, CT : Praeger, 2004
Includes bibliographical references and index
Language: English

Physical Description: xiii, 284 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Contents: Introduction : "We must finish off the Jews" : theft of Jewish property as an instrument of genocide
"Sucking the last drops of blood" : apartments taken, furniture stolen, income cut
"One enormous funeral" : establishing the ghetto : Germans, Poles, and Jews steal the remaining property
"A terrifying, shocking cry" : the results of theft : poverty, starvation, disease, and death
"The ghetto turned into hell" : mass deportation : Warsaw's Jews sent to die, their property looted
"Capitalizing on tragedy" : Treblinka : theft on the way to the gas chambers, and afterward
"Guaranteed lost for eternity" : the war's aftermath : the survivors leave Poland and their property behind
"We are losing precious time" : present and future : internal strife among Jews while Poland shirks responsibility.
Other Authors/Editors: Neiman, Rachel.
ISBN: 0275976491
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Poland--Warsaw.
Jewish property--Poland--Warsaw--History--20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw.
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