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  5. Germany, A shipment of books from Wiesenfeld, Bavaria, containing approximately 10000 books in 54 cases.

Germany, A shipment of books from Wiesenfeld, Bavaria, containing approximately 10000 books in 54 cases.

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An album which documents postwar efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (OAD) to restore cultural property that was confiscated by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR).
Offenbach, Germany, A photograph of the OAD deputy director Rouben Sami, The librarian Clauss, and the secretary Schuel, 05/11/1946.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Germany, Lt. Col. J. Podhajsky signing for books plundered from Czechoslovakia.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Germany, Train cars that were used after the war to transport books that were confiscated by the ERR to the OAD.
Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) was an organization that confiscated Jewish art and cultural items. On 02/03/1946, the US Army established the Offenbach Archival Depot (OAD) warehouse in order to collect and classify the books and written material confiscated by the Germans. Seen in the photo - train cars containing all of the Historica Monumenta Germaniae library robbed from Rome, and all of the library of the Institute of the History of Art in Florence.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Offenbach, Germany, The preservation department of the OAD.
Here books were dried and prepared for storage. Minor essential restoration tasks were also undertaken.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Germany, A graph of the collection of materials by the OAD.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Germany, A shipment of books from Wiesenfeld, Bavaria, containing approximately 10000 books in 54 cases.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Offenbach, Germany, Professor Gershon Scholem from the Hebrew University aids in the identification of rare Hebrew manuscripts.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Offenbach, Germany, Maurice Liber, Chief Rabbi and head of the rabbinical school of France, helping to identify Hebrew manuscripts.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Offenbach, Germany, Mrs. Edith Thomas at work, compiling lists of East European libraries and selecting library stamps.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Offenbach, Germany, Books and archival material in the OAD warehouse.
Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) was an organization that confiscated Jewish art and cultural items. On 02/03/1946, the US Army established the Offenbach Archival Depot (OAD) warehouse in order to collect and classify the books and written material confiscated by the Germans.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Germany, A barge loaded for the third and final shipment of books, paintings and furniture from the OAD to Holland, 06/07/1946.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Offenbach, Germany, The shipping room of the OAD.
The room holds 800 crates containing about 200,000 books and documents from over 500 Russian libraries, awaiting shipping - the final step in Restitution.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Germany, A shipment of 318 cases of books in French, Dutch, Russian and other languages, from Staffelstein, Bavaria, to the OAD.
Standing next to the trucks are Maj. Graswinckel and his driver.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Offenbach, Germany, A boxcar loaded with books, about to leave from the OAD for Poland.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
France, The last of eleven freight cars carrying books, plundered by the Nazis, from the OAD back to France.
About 319,000 books confiscated by the Nazi regime were returned to France.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Offenbach, Germany, The packing room of the OAD.
Books and archival materials from all departments of the OAD were sent to this room to be packed and sealed for storage and shipment. The packing room packed about 50 crates (10,000 books) per day.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Germany, Transfer of a quarter million books by train from Berlin to the OAD.
The books were brought from Berlin by the efforts of Capt. S.J. Pomerenze and Dr. J. Zuckerman(Library of Congress Mission).
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Germany, 1946, A small part of the Masonic collection at the OAD, holding paraphernalia belonging to Masonic lodges from all countries under Nazi occupation.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Offenbach, Germany, Professor Pinson (in the center) with workers and volunteers of the OAD, picking books for the DP camps.
Out of over half-a-million that were found in the OAD, 25,000 were selected for the DP camps.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Offenbach, Germany, 09/07/1946, Books and catalogs of paintings from the Kunsthistorisches Institute at Florenz arriving at the OAD.
The books were transported in 578 cases, on three train cars, from the Heilbronn Salt Mine in Wuerttemberg-Baden, where they were stored since their transport from Italy.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Offenbach, Germany, Some of the six hundred Torah scrolls that were brought the OAD from all over the American-administered area, 1946.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Germany, Photographs from Russia and the United States, gathered and classified by the Nazis for propaganda purposes.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Germany, OAD men unloading a carload books.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Germany, The smallest and the largest books, respectively, found at the OAD, both French.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Offenbach, Germany, Captain (Chaplain) Isaiah Rackovsky identifying Hebrew documents.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Germany, A barge loaded for the third and final shipment of books, paintings and furniture from the OAD to Holland, 06/07/1946.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Offenbach, Germany, A carpentry shop at the OAD.
Here old crates were fixed and new ones assembled.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Germany, A shipment of books from Schloss Banz, Bavaria, containing approximately 110000 books in 569 cases.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Germany, Major Graswinckel of the National Archives signing a receipt for the last and third largest shipment of books from OAD to Holland.
 A shipment of 600 crates, holding about 200,000 books.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
Offenbach, Germany, The photo laboratory of the OAD.
Photographer O. Nischwitz (center), with his aid, Ms. M. Winter, and Mr. S. Kuehl. The department photographed and developed negatives of varied materials, among them over 5000 various library marks in over 20 different languages.
Archival Signature : 368
Credit : Yad Vashem
Related Album : An Album Which Documents Postwar Efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (oad) to Restore Cultural Property That Was Confiscated By the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (err).
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Related Album
An album which documents postwar efforts of the Offenbach Archival Depot (OAD) to restore cultural property that was confiscated by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR).
Archival Signature
368
Name of Submitter
Sima Karie
Source
Issac Bencowitz
Credit
Yad Vashem
Place
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Date of Accession
13/02/1967
Type of material
Album
Album Number
FA2 73/11
Subjects
Us Army
Postwar Period
Confiscation of Books
Confiscation of Property
Archives and Libraries
Buildings
Vehicles
Books