In this slim but bracing book, David Fishman casts light upon a group of Jewish artists, intellectuals and bibliophiles who took it upon themselves to save their culture from extinction at the hand of the Nazis. The Nazis, being as organized as they were, had a special branch to perform this task, the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR), which started plundering cultural artifacts in France in 1940. One of its core beliefs was Judenforschung Ohne Juden — the study of the Jews without the Jews. Only 30 per cent of what was collected was sent to Germany, with the rest destined for destruction or recycling. Or the Jewish ghetto police, who wouldn’t search too thoroughly.

Source: thestar November 10, 2017 11:26 UTC