Returning Home: Reclaiming Nazi-Looted Jewish Materials
Channel: UCLA Library
Date: 2022-06-13

May 17, 2022 | Session one of "Contested Collections: Grappling With History and Forging Pathways for Repatriation," a virtual symposium hosted by the UCLA Library's International and Area Studies Department: https://bit.ly/uclal-symposium.

This session told the story of the UCLA Library's repatriation of Judaica books to the Jewish Museum in Prague (JMP) within the context of the Holocaust and the looting of Jewish cultural artifacts. It detailed JMP's efforts at recovering lost materials and UCLA's process in preparing the items for return. It also included a case study of a restituted collection that was donated to the UCLA Library.  

Speakers (in order of appearance):

– Lisa Leff, Professor of History, American University; Director of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

– Michal Bušek, Jewish Studies Researcher, Jewish Museum in Prague

– Diane Mizrachi, Librarian for Jewish and Israel Studies and Social Sciences, UCLA Library
 
– Russell Johnson, Curator for History of Medicine and the Sciences, UCLA Library Special Collections
 
– Moderator: Renata Fuchs, Lecturer, Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies and Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA