{"id":21199,"date":"2015-06-03T18:05:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T16:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=21199"},"modified":"2015-06-02T06:12:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T04:12:33","slug":"21199","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=21199","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Legacy: Nazi Theft and the Quest for Justice at Krausenstrasse 17\/18, Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Stolen Legacy: Nazi Theft and the Quest for Justice at Krausenstrasse 17\/18, Berlin<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
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Stolen Legacy is a non-fiction historical narrative centered around a German Jewish family\u2019s legal battle to reclaim ownership of a building stolen from them by the Nazis in the 1930s. The building at Krausenstrasse 17\/18 in Berlin was seized by a German businessman with direct ties to the very top of the Nazi Party hierarchy and German Railways – the state-owned organization that participated in the logistics of sending millions of Jews across Europe to the death camps\u2014and was the head of the Victoria Insurance Company, then and now one of Germany\u2019s top insurance companies which, according to the book, played a role in insuring the Auschwitz death camp during World War Two.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The book, written by the daughter of one of the original owners of the building, details the history of the Wolff family\u2019s ownership of the building, its confiscation by the Nazis, and the family\u2019s 50 year legal fight to reclaim ownership of the building, which was finally awarded to them in 2010. There has been no previous written account of a successful claim of a property seized by the Nazis in Germany. Former US Ambassador to the European Union, Stuart E. Eizenstat, has written the book\u2019s foreword.<\/span><\/p>\n

What Others are Saying About Stolen Legacy<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The research for stolen assets remaining in Hitler\u2019s Germany lead some survivors of famous German Jewish families to write historic and moving works which mix at the same time judicial investigations and human epics \u2013 that’s the case for Dina Gold’s \u201cStolen Legacy\u201d. Her property becomes in a way the reader’s property and we follow with a great interest and intensity her efforts to recuperate not only a material legacy but the entire history of her family.<\/span><\/p>\n

-Serge Klarsfeld, (French) Lawyer and Nazi hunter<\/span><\/p>\n

Stolen property\u2014of those who were murdered and the minority who escaped or otherwise survived\u2014was seized and passed on, first by the Nazis and then by the governments that followed, to new possessors, public and private. Some pretended to own that property; most knew its real origins; few were willing to part with it. This is the story of a single such property that, by indefatigable effort, was reclaimed, at least partly, two generations later. It\u2019s the story of the theft. But it\u2019s also, by inference, a small part of the story of the murder. And it\u2019s the story of a rare act of belated and incomplete, but symbolically resonant, historical justice.<\/span><\/p>\n

-Walter Reich, Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior, and former Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum<\/span><\/p>\n

“An exceptional adventure in Holocaust literature. Dina Gold combines investigative journalism with a keen sense of history to uncover a story everyone should read.”<\/span><\/p>\n

-Marvin Kalb, a Harvard professor emeritus, now senior adviser to Pulitzer Center, former network correspondent.<\/span><\/p>\n

German Jewish families, not necessarily the very richest, were among the leading art collectors in the country. After 1933 almost all these collections were taken over, or, not to mince words, stolen. Some were acquired by Nazi leaders such as Goering, others went to museums, yet others to private hands, and some were hidden or destroyed as “degenerate art” Dina Gold tells the fascinating story of the uphill attempts of one such family–her own-to regain what had been stolen. It is an amazing story but the reader is well advised to remember that it is by no means unique.in some cases justice has been done, in others imperfect justice, and in others yet no justice at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

-Walter LAQUEUR, the leading historian is the author of among many other words Weimar, a cutural history.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dina Gold has written a crisp, page-turning nonfiction whodunit, and proves herself to be an unyielding sleuth in the pursuit of justice for her family. At the same time, it is meticulously researched journalism that provides a fresh perspective on history.<\/span><\/p>\n

-Nadine Epstein<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

About the Author<\/em><\/p>\n

Dina Gold (Washington, D.C.) is a former BBC investigative journalist and television producer. She currently serves as co chair of the Washington Jewish Film Festival and is a senior editor at Moment magazine, the largest independent Jewish magazine in North America.<\/em><\/p>\n

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