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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).

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Volume Two of an album originally entitled "The Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) of which the Offenbach Archival Depot has become the antithesis". This volume was prepared between May and November 1946. The album documents the collection of possessions stolen by the Nazis in the occupied countries and their restitution. The Offenbach Archival Depot (OAD), a US Army organization in the American zone, was responsible for this operation.

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Offenbach, Germany, A photograph of the OAD deputy director Rouben Sami, The librarian Clauss, and the secretary Schuel, 05/11/1946.

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Germany, Lt. Col. J. Podhajsky signing for books plundered from Czechoslovakia.

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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.

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Offenbach, Germany, The preservation department of the OAD.

Here books were dried and prepared for storage. Minor essential restoration tasks were also undertaken.

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Germany, A graph of the collection of materials by the OAD.

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

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Offenbach, Germany, Professor Gershon Scholem from the Hebrew University aids in the identification of rare Hebrew manuscripts.

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Offenbach, Germany, Maurice Liber, Chief Rabbi and head of the rabbinical school of France, helping to identify Hebrew manuscripts.

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Offenbach, Germany, Mrs. Edith Thomas at work, compiling lists of East European libraries and selecting library stamps.

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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.

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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).

Germany, A barge loaded for the third and final shipment of books, paintings and furniture from the OAD to Holland, 06/07/1946.

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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.

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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.

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Offenbach, Germany, A boxcar loaded with books, about to leave from the OAD for Poland.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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Germany, 1946, A small part of the Masonic collection at the OAD, holding paraphernalia belonging to Masonic lodges from all countries under Nazi occupation.

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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.

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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.

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Offenbach, Germany, Some of the six hundred Torah scrolls that were brought the OAD from all over the American-administered area, 1946.

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Germany, Photographs from Russia and the United States, gathered and classified by the Nazis for propaganda purposes.

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Germany, OAD men unloading a carload books.

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Germany, The smallest and the largest books, respectively, found at the OAD, both French.

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Offenbach, Germany, Captain (Chaplain) Isaiah Rackovsky identifying Hebrew documents.

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Germany, A barge loaded for the third and final shipment of books, paintings and furniture from the OAD to Holland, 06/07/1946.

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Offenbach, Germany, A carpentry shop at the OAD.

Here old crates were fixed and new ones assembled.

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Germany, A shipment of books from Schloss Banz, Bavaria, containing approximately 110000 books in 569 cases.

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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.

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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.

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Sima Karie

Issac Bencowitz

Yad Vashem

Offenbach am Main,Offenbach a. Main (Darmstadt),Hesse,Germany

13/02/1967

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