Holocaust restitution
Subtitle: perspectives on the litigation and its aftermath
By: edited by Michael J. Bazyler and Roger P. Alford.
Contributors: Bazyler, Michael J.; Alford, Roger P.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780814799437
Subjects: Holocaust survivors -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Reparations.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Claims.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: International law and the Holocaust / Thomas Buergenthal; title: The State Department, Nazi gold, and search for Holocaust assets / William Z. Slany; title: Confronting history : restitution and the historians / Michael Berenbaum; title: Holocaust litigation and human rights jurisprudence / Robert A. Swift; title: A tale of two cities : administering Holocaust settlements in Brooklyn and Berlin / Burt Neuborne; title: How Swiss banks and German companies came to terms with the wrenching legacies of the Holocaust and World War II : a defense perspective / Roger M. Witten; title: Why won't these SOBs give me my money? : a survivor's perspective / Si Frumkin; title: A litigator's postscript to the Swiss banks settlement : why justice was done / Melvyn I. Weiss; title: Rewriting the Holocaust history of the Swiss banks : a growing scandal / Edward R. Korman; title: The French Holocaust-era claims process / Eric Freedman and Richard Weisberg; title: The French bank Holocaust settlement / Shimon Samuels; title: Holy profit : Holocaust restitution and the Vatican bank / Lee Boyd; title: Where morality meets money / Gideon Taylor; title: The negotiations on compensation for Nazi forced laborers / Count Otto Graf Lambsdorff; title: The Germany economy foundation initiative : remembrance, responsibility, and the future : an act of solidarity for victims of national socialism / Lothar Ulsamer; title: Processing claims for slave and forced Labour : expediency versus accuracy? / Roland Bank; title: Corporate profits and the Holocaust : a dissent from the monetary argument / Peter Hayes; title: It's not about the money : a survivor's perspective of the German Foundation initiative / Roman Kent; title: Germany's reexamination of its past through the lens of the Holocaust litigation / Deborah Sturman; title: Austria confronts her past / Hannah Lessing and Fiorentina Azizzi; title: Holocaust-era insurance claims : legislative, judicial, and executive remedies / Lawrence Kill and Linda Gerstel; title: The road to compensation of life insurance policies / Kai Hennig; title: CHEIC : Excellent concept but inept implementation / Sidney Zabludoff; title: The Holocaust Claims Processing Office : New York State's approach to resolving Holocaust-era art claims / Monica Dugot; title: Portrait of Wally : The United States government role in recovering Holocaust-looted art / Howard N. Spiegler; title: Whose art is it anyway? / E. Randol Schoenberg; title: The unfinished business of the unfinished business of World War II / Stuart E. Eizenstat; title: Poor justice : Holocaust restitution and forgotten, indigent survivors / David A. Lash and Mitchell A. Kamin; title: The Holocaust restitution enterprise : an Israeli perspective / Arie Zuckerman; title: Historical reparation claims : the defense perspective / Owen C. Pell; title: The legacy of Holocaust class action suits : have they broken ground for other cases of historical wrongs? / Morris Ratner and Caryn Becker.