holocaust/wwii resources
Shuster, Simon. Germany Rushes To Let Holocaust Victims Claim Nazi-Looted Art. Time.Com (2013): 1. Middle Search Plus. Web. 16 Jan. 2014. The article discusses efforts by Germany as of November 12, 2013 to allow Holocaust victims to reclaim art that was seized from Jewish collectors by the Nazis during World War II. More than 1,400 artworks were found in 2012 in the Munich, Germany home of Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of an art dealer. Topics include ownership claims through the website LostArt.de, concerns from Jewish organizations such as the World Jewish Congress, and claims of obfuscation against the German government.
Timmerman, Kenneth R. Austria Confronts Its Dark Nazi Past. Insight On The News 18.29 (2002): 24. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 16 Jan. 2014. Reports on the establishment of the Historical Commission by the Austrian government to release an inventory of property stolen from Jews by the Nazis as of August 2002. Overview of the relations between Nazi Germany and Austria during World War II; Information on the preliminary report released by the commission; Estimation of the total amount of properties seized from Austria's Jews according to historians.
Beer, Helen. Yiddish Without Yiddish?. European Judaism 42.2 (2009): 10. MainFile. Web. 16 Jan. 2014. Using pre-war Poland as an example, Helen Beer describes the richness of Yiddish cultural life prior to the Holocaust. (When page opens, click on PDF link at left.)
Holocaust Restitution: Recovering Stolen Art - From the Jewish Virtual Library, a source for information about Jewish history, Israel, U.S.-Israel relations, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism and Judaism.