Library and Reading Room
Thematic reference library Rose Valland Institute
The selection of books in the reading room of the Rose Valland Institute is based on the bibliography published in Sarah Gensburger’s book, Witnessing the Robbing of the Jews. A Photographic Album, Paris, 1940– 1944 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015). It has been supplemented by additional selected literature on Nazi lootings as well as questions of provenance and restitution. The publications are provided in German, English, and French editions, if available.
Bibliography
Aalders, Gerard. Geraubt! Die Enteignung jüdischen Besitzes im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Translated by Stefan Häring. Cologne: Dittrich, 2000. (Originally published as Roof: De ontvreemding van joods bezit tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. The Hague: SDU, 1999)
Aalders, Gerard. Nazi Looting: The Plunder of Dutch Jewry during the Second World War. Translated by Arnold Pomerans and Erica Pomerans. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2004.
Aly, Götz. Hitlers Volksstaat: Raub, Rassenkrieg und nationaler Sozialismus. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2005.
Aly, Götz. Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State. Translated by Jefferson Chase. London: Verso, [2007] 2016.
Aly, Götz, and Michael Sontheimer. Fromms: Wie der jüdische Kondomfabrikant Julius F. unter die deutschen Räuber fiel. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, [2007] 2009.
Ascher, Abraham. A Community under Siege: The Jews of Breslau under Nazism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007.
Baer, Ulrich. Spectral Evidence: The Photography of Trauma. Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, [2002] 2005.
Bajohr, Frank. “Arisierung” in Hamburg: Die Verdrängung der jüdischen Unternehmer 1933–1945. Hamburg: Christians, 1997.
Barkan, Elazar. The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices. New York and London: Norton, 2000.
Bazyler, Michael J. Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America’s Courts. New York and London: New York University Press, 2003.
Bertz, Inka, and Michael Dorrmann, eds. Raub und Restitution: Kulturgut aus jüdischem Besitz von 1933 bis heute. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2008. Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same title held at Jüdisches Museum Berlin and Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt am Main.
Bizardel, Yvon. Sous l’occupation: Souvenirs d’un conservateur de musée (1940–1944). Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1964.
Bouchoux, Corinne. “Si les tableaux pouvaient parler …”: Le traitement politique et médiatique des retours d’œuvres d’art pillées et spoliées par les nazis (France 1945–2008). Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2013.
Bruttmann, Tal, ed. Persécutions et spoliations des Juifs pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Grenoble: Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 2004.
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. Confiscation of Jewish Property in Europe, 1933–1945: New Sources and Perspectives: Symposium Proceedings. Washington, DC: Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2003.
Chamberlin, Russell. Loot! The Heritage of Plunder. London: Thames & Hudson, 1983.
Cœuré, Sophie. La mémoire spoliée: Les archives des Français, butin de guerre nazi puis soviétique (de 1940 à nos jours). Paris: Payot & Rivages, [2007] rev. upd. ed. 2013.
Conan, Éric, and Henry Rousso. Vichy, un passé qui ne passe pas. Paris: Fayard, 1994.
Dean, Martin. Robbing the Jews: The Confiscation of Jewish Property in the Holocaust, 1933–1945. New York: Cambridge University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, [2008] 2010.
Denoyelle, Françoise. La photographie d’actualité et de propagande sous le régime de Vichy. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2003.
Desprairies, Cécile. Paris dans la Collaboration. Paris: Seuil, 2009.
Destremau, Frédéric. Rose Valland, résistante pour l’art. Grenoble: Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l’Isère, 2008.
Didi-Huberman, Georges. Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz. Translated by Shane B. Lillis. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. (Originally published as Images malgré tout. Paris: Minuit, 2003)
Diner, Dan. Beyond the Conceivable: Studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2000.
Diner, Dan, and Gotthart Wunberg, eds. Restitution and Memory: Material Restoration in Europe. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2007.
Doulut, Alexandre. La spoliation des biens juifs en Lot-et-Garonne, 1941–1944. [Narrosse]: Éditions d’Albret, 2005.
Douzou, Laurent. Voler les Juifs: Lyon 1940–1944. Paris: Hachette, 2002.
Dreßen, Wolfgang. Betrifft: “Aktion 3”: Deutsche verwerten jüdische Nachbarn: Dokumente zur Arisierung. Berlin: Aufbau, 1998.
Dreyfus, Jean-Marc. Pillages sur ordonnances: Aryanisation et restitution des banques en France, 1940–1953. Paris: Fayard, 2003.
Dreyfus, Jean-Marc, and Sarah Gensburger. Nazi Labour Camps in Paris: Austerlitz, Lévitan, Bassano, July 1943–August 1944. Translated by Jonathan Hensher. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, [2011] 2014. (Originally published as Des camps dans Paris: Austerlitz, Lévitan, Bassano, juillet 1943–août 1944. Paris: Fayard, 2003)
Eichhorn, Maria. Restitutionspolitik / Politics of Restitution. Cologne: König, 2004. Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same title held at the Kunstbau of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhhaus, Munich.
Eichhorn, Maria. In den Zelten 4 / 5 / 5a / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 9a / 10, Kronprinzenufer 29 / 30, Beethovenstraße 1 / 2 / 3 (1832 bis / to 1959) > John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 (seit / since 1959), Berlin, Berlin: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2015.
Edsel, Robert M. Rescuing Da Vinci: Hitler and the Nazis Stole Europe’s Great Art, America and Her Allies Recovered It. Dallas: Laurel, 2006.
Edsel, Robert M. Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation’s Treasures from the Nazis. New York and London: Norton, 2013.
Edsel, Robert M., and Bret Witter. The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History. New York: Center Street, 2009.
Edsel, Robert M., and Bret Witter. Monuments Men: Die Jagd nach Hitlers Raubkunst. Translated by Hans Freundl. St. Pölten, Salzburg, and Vienna: Residenz, 2013.
Feldman, Gerald D., and Wolfgang Seibel, eds. Networks of Nazi Persecution: Bureaucracy, Business, and the Organization of the Holocaust. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2005.
Feliciano, Hector. Le musée disparu: Enquête sur le pillage d’œuvres d’art en France par les nazis. Translated by Svetlana Doubin. [Paris: Austral, 1995] Paris: Gallimard, rev. and exp. ed. 2008.
Feliciano, Hector. Das verlorene Museum: Vom Kunstraub der Nazis. Translated by Chris Hirte. Berlin: Aufbau, 1998.
Freedberg, David. The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Gallas, Elisabeth. “Das Leichenhaus der Bücher”: Kulturrestitution und jüdisches Geschichtsdenken nach 1945. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013.
Gensburger, Sarah. Images d’un pillage: Album de la spoliation des Juifs à Paris, 1940–1944. Paris: Textuel, 2010.
Gensburger, Sarah. Witnessing the Robbing of the Jews: A Photographic Album, Paris, 1940–1944. Translated by Jonathan Hensher and Elisabeth Fourmont. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015.
Gold, Dina. Stolen Legacy: Nazi Theft and the Quest for Justice at Krausenstrasse 17/18, Berlin. Chicago: American Bar Association, [2015] rev. upd. ed. 2016.
Goschler, Constantin, and Philipp Ther, eds. Raub und Restitution: “Arisierung” und Rückerstattung des jüdischen Eigentums in Europa. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2003.
Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy. Returned from Russia: Nazi Archival Plunder in Western Europe and Recent Restitution Issues: Afterword – 2013. Builth Wells: Institute of Art and Law, 2013. Offprint of afterword published in the new edition of Returned from Russia, edited by Grimsted, F. J. Hoogewoud, and Eric Ketelaar, originally published in 2007.
Gruner, Wolf. Der Geschlossene Arbeitseinsatz deutscher Juden: Zur Zwangsarbeit als Element der Verfolgung 1938–1943. Berlin: Metropol, 1997.
Gruner, Wolf. Jewish Forced Labor under the Nazis: Economic Needs and Racial Aims, 1938–1944. Translated by Kathleen M. Dell’Orto. New York: Cambridge University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, [2006] 2008.
Gutman, Israel, and Bella Gutterman, eds. Das Auschwitz Album: Die Geschichte eines Transports. Translated by Alma Lessing. Jersualem: Yad Vashem / Göttingen: Wallstein, [2005] 2nd, rev. ed. 2015. (Originally published as The Auschwitz Album. The Story of a Transport. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem / Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2002)
Halbwachs, Maurice. Les cadres sociaux de la mémoire [Paris: Alcan, 1925]. Edited by Gérard Namer. Paris: Albin Michel, 1994.
Halbwachs, Maurice. La mémoire collective [Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1950]. Edited by Gérard Namer. Paris: Albin Michel, 1997.
Halbwachs, Maurice. On Collective Memory. Edited and translated by Lewis A. Coser. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Hansen-Glucklich, Jennifer. Holocaust Memory Reframed: Museums and the Challenges of Representation. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2014.
Hellman, Peter, ed. The Auschwitz Album: A Book Based upon an Album Discovered by a Concentration Camp Survivor, Lili Meier. New York: Random House, 1981.
Hellman, Peter, ed. L’Album d’Auschwitz: D’après un album découvert par Lili Meier survivante du camp de concentration. Translated by Guy Casaril. Paris: Seuil, 1983.
Heuß, Anja. Kunst- und Kulturgutraub: Eine vergleichende Studie zur Besatzungspolitik der Nationalsozialisten in Frankreich und der Sowjetunion. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2000.
Hickley, Catherine. The Munich Art Hoard: Hitler’s Dealer and His Secret Legacy. London: Thames & Hudson, 2015.
Hilberg, Raul. Unerbetene Erinnerung: Der Weg eines Holocaust-Forschers. Translated by Hans Günter Holl. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, [1994] 2008. (Originally published as The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996)
Hilberg, Raul. Sources of Holocaust Research: An Analysis. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001.
Hilberg, Raul. Holocauste: Les sources de l’histoire. Translated by Marie-France de Paloméra. Paris: Gallimard, 2001.
Hirsch, Joshua. Afterimage: Film, Trauma, and the Holocaust. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004.
Hoffmann, Meike, and Nicola Kuhn. Hitlers Kunsthändler: Hildebrand Gurlitt, 1895–1956: Die Biographie. Munich: Beck, 2016.
Jungius, Martin. Der verwaltete Raub: Die “Arisierung” der Wirtschaft in Frankreich in den Jahren 1940 bis 1944. Ostfildern: Thorbecke, 2008.
Kaplan, Brett Ashley. Unwanted Beauty: Aesthetic Pleasure in Holocaust Representation. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007.
Klarsfeld, Serge. Le calendrier de la persécution des Juifs en France, 1940–1944. Paris: Les fils et filles des déportés juifs de France / Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, 1993.
Konrad-Tromsdorf, Klaus, and Nadja Kuhl. Legalisierter Raub: Der Fiskus und die Ausplünderung der Juden in Hessen. Gießen: Bookxpress, 2002.
Kott, Christina. Préserver l’art de l'ennemi? Le patrimoine artistique en Belgique et en France occupées, 1914–1918. Brussels: Peter Lang, 2006.
Kurtz, Michael J. America and the Return of Nazi Contraband: The Recovery of Europe’s Cultural Treasures. New York: Cambridge University Press, [2006] 2009.
La Farge, Henry, ed. Lost Treasures of Europe: 427 Photographs. New York: Pantheon Books, [1946] 1947.
Laffitte, Michel. Un engrenage fatal. L’UGIF face aux réalités de la Shoah, 1941–1944. Paris: Liana Levi, 2003.
Langford, Martha. Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, [2001] 2008.
Lapierre, Nicole, ed. Das gerettete Buch des Simcha Guterman. Translated by Rolf and Hedda Soellner. [Munich: Hanser, 1993] Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1996. (Originally published as Simha Guterman. Le livre retrouvé. Edited by Nicole Lapierre. Translated by Aby Wieviorka and Nicole Lapierre. Paris: Plon, 1991)
Le Bot, Florent. La fabrique réactionnaire: Antisémitisme, spoliations et corporatisme dans le cuir (1930–1950). Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2007.
le Masne de Chermont, Isabelle, and Laurence Sigal-Klagsbald, eds. À qui appartenaient ces tableaux? La politique française de recherche de provenance, de garde et de restitution des œuvres d’art pillées durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale / Looking for Owners: French Policy for Provenance Research, Restitution and Custody of Art Stolen in France during World War Two. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2008.
Lesné, Claude, and Anne Roquebert. Catalogue des peintures MNR. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2004.
Liss, Andrea. Trespassing through Shadows: Memory, Photography, and the Holocaust. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
Meinl, Susanne, and Jutta Zwilling. Legalisierter Raub: Die Ausplünderung der Juden im Nationalsozialismus durch die Reichsfinanzverwaltung in Hessen. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2004.
Mężyński, Andrzej. Kommando Paulsen: Organisierter Kunstraub in Polen 1942–45. Translated by Armin Hetzer. Cologne: Dittrich, 2000. (Expanded German edition of Kommando Paulsen: październik–grudzień 1939 r. Warsaw: DiG, 1994)
Mitchell, William J. Thomas. The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, [1992] 1994.
Mitchell, William J. Thomas. Bildtheorie. Edited by Gustav Frank. Translated by Heinz Jatho et al. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2008.
Nicholas, Lynn H. The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe’s Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War. [New York: Knopf, 1994] New York: Vintage Books, 1995.
Nicholas, Lynn H. Der Raub der Europa: Das Schicksal europäischer Kunstwerke im Dritten Reich. Translated by Irene Bisang and Karin Tschumper. [Munich: Kindler, 1995] Munich: Droemer Knaur, 1997.
Olin, Margaret. Touching Photographs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Petropoulos, Jonathan. Art as Politics in the Third Reich. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Petropoulos, Jonathan. Kunstraub und Sammelwahn: Kunst und Politik im Dritten Reich. Translated by Eric D. Lombert. Berlin: Propyläen, 1999.
Petropoulos, Jonathan. The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Polack, Emmanuelle, Claire Bouilhac, and Catel. Rose Valland, capitaine Beaux-Arts. [Marcinelle]: Dupuis, 2009.
Polack, Emmanuelle, and Philippe Dagen. Les carnets de Rose Valland: Le pillage des collections privées d’œuvres d’art en France durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Lyon: Fage, 2011.
Prior, Ingeborg. Die geraubten Bilder: Die abenteuerliche Geschichte der Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers und ihrer Kunstsammlung. Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2002.
Prost, Antoine, Rémi Skoutelsky, and Sonia Étienne. Aryanisation économique et restitutions. Mission d’étude sur la spoliation des Juifs de France. Paris: La Documentation française, 2000.
Pye, Michael. The Pieces from Berlin. [New York: Knopf, 2003] New York: Vintage Books, 2004.
Rajsfus, Maurice. Drancy: Un camp de concentration très ordinaire, 1941–1944. Levallois-Perret: Manya, 1991.
Reininghaus, Alexandra, ed. Recollecting: Raub und Restitution. Vienna: Passagen, 2009.
Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine 49, no. 4 (2002).
Schade, Sigrid, Gottfried Fliedl, and Martin Sturm, eds. Kunst als Beute: Zur symbolischen Zirkulation von Kulturobjekten. Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2000.
Schmidt, Ulrich, ed. Die Kasseler Sammlung Alexander Fiorino. Katalog zur Ausstellung in der Neuen Galerie, 12. Juni – 11. September 1994, Kassel: Staatliche Museen Kassel, 1994.
Simpson, Elizabeth, ed. The Spoils of War: World War II and Its Aftermath: The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Property. New York: Abrams in association with the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, 1997.
Smyth, Craig Hugh. Repatriation of Art from the Collecting Point in Munich after World War II: Background and Beginnings: With Reference Especially to the Netherlands. Maarssen: Gary Schwartz / The Hague: SDU, 1988.
“Spoliations: nouvelles recherches”. Special issue Les cahiers du judaïsme, no. 27 (2009).
Stiefel, Dieter, ed. Die politische Ö̈konomie des Holocaust: Zur wirtschaftlichen Logik von Verfolgung und “Wiedergutmachung”. Vienna: Verlag für Geschichte und Politik / Munich: Oldenbourg, 2001.
Stier, Oren Baruch. Holocaust Icons: Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2015.
Stoltzfus, Nathan. Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany. [New York: Norton, 1996] New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press, 2001.
Stoltzfus, Nathan. Widerstand des Herzens: Der Aufstand der Berliner Frauen in der Rosenstraße – 1943. Translated by Michael Müller. Munich: Hanser, 1999.
Stoltzfus, Nathan. La résistance des cœurs: Berlin, 1943: La révolte des femmes allemandes mariées à des Juifs. Translated by Richard Crevier. Paris: Phébus, 2002.
Ueberschär, Gerd R., and Winfried Vogel. Dienen und Verdienen: Hitlers Geschenke an seine Eliten. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, [1999] 4th, upd. ed. 2009.
Wieviorka, Annette. Les biens des internés des camps de Drancy, Pithiviers et Beaune-la-Rolande. Mission d’étude sur la spoliation des Juifs de France. Paris: La Documentation française, 2000.
Wieviorka, Annette, and Michel Laffitte. À l’intérieur du camp de Drancy. Paris: Perrin, [2012] 2015.
Young, James E. At Memory’s Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
Zelizer, Barbie. Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory through the Camera’s Eye. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
With kind support from:
Columbia University Press, New York, NY
Éditions Flammarion, Paris
Éditions Grasset, Paris
Éditions Liana Levi, Paris
Éditions Payot & Rivage, Paris
Macmillan Publishers, New York, NY
The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
Monuments Men Foundation, Dallas, TX
NYU Press, New York, NY
Peter Lang AG, Bern
Revue d´histoire moderne & contemporaine, Paris
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ
S. Fischer Verlage, Frankfurt am Main
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN
The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC
Verlag C.H.Beck, München
Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln
Wallstein Verlag GmbH, Göttingen