Though these institutions were never built, crates of looted books were sent to sorting centers to be processed – often by forced Jewish labor. Diane Mizrachi, a librarian at UCLA, knew virtually nothing of the looted books until 2020, when she received an unexpected email. Jewish Museum Prague“I see it as a moral and ethical issue,” she added. Some of the looted books returned by UCLA to the Jewish Museum in Prague Shannon Tanhayi Ahari/UCLA LibraryThe process of recovering them is, therefore, not straightforward. The new exhibition features some of the looted books.

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