Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Holocaust Restitution Timeline
Introduction
Part I: Overview
1. International Law and the Holocaust
2. The State Department, Nazi Gold, and the Search for Holocaust Assets
3. Confronting History: Restitution and the Historians
4. Holocaust Litigation and Human Rights Jurisprudence
5. A Tale of Two Cities: Administering the Holocaust Settlements in Brooklyn and Berlin
6. How Swiss Banks and German Companies Came to Terms with the Wrenching Legacies of the Holocaust and World War II: A Defense Perspective
7. Why Won't These SOBs Give Me My Money? A Survivor's Perspective
Part II. The Bank Litigation
8. A Litigator's Postscript to the Swiss Banks and Holocaust Litigation Settlements: How Justice Was Served
9. Rewriting the Holocaust History of the Swiss Banks: A Growing Scandal
10. The French Holocaust-Era Claims Process
11. The French Bank Holocaust Settlement
12. Unholy Profits: Holocaust Restitution and the Vatican Bank
Part III. The Slave Labor Litigation
13. Where Morality Meets Money
14. The Negotiations on Compensation for Nazi Forced Laborers
15. German Economy and the Foundation Initiative: An Act of Solidarity for Victims of National Socialism
16. Processing of Claims for Slave and Forced Labor: Expediency versus Accuracy?
17. Corporate Profits and the Holocaust: A Dissent from the Monetary Argument
18. It's Not about the Money: A Survivor's Perspective on the German Foundation Initiative
19. Germany's Reexamination of Its Past through the Lens of the Holocaust Litigation
20. Austria Confronts Her Past
Part IV. The Insurance Litigation
21. Holocaust-Era Insurance Claims: Legislative, Judicial, and Executive Remedies
22. The Road to Compensation of Life Insurance Policies: The Foundation Law and ICHEIC
23. ICHEIC: Excellent Concept but Inept Implementation
Part V. The Looted Art Litigation
24. The Holocaust Claims Processing Office: New York State's Approach to Resolving Holocaust-Era Art Claims
25. Portrait of Wally: The U.S. Government's Role in Recovering Holocaust Looted Art
26. Whose Art Is It Anyway?
Part VI. The Litigation's Legacy
27. The Unfinished Business of the Unfinished Business of World War II
28. Poor Justice: Holocaust Restitution and Forgotten, Indigent Survivors
29. The Holocaust Restitution Enterprise: An Israeli Perspective
30. Historical Reparation Claims: The Defense Perspective
31. The Legacy of Holocaust Class Action Suits: Have They Broken Ground for Other Cases of Historical Wrongs?
About the Contributors
Index
About the Editors