Abstract
The article examines the fate of hundreds of thousands of Jewish-owned books that had been looted by the Nazis. By the end of the Second World War, these books were scattered all across Europe, and within a very short time, they became the focus of bitter conflicts between three official elements – the Jewish organizations in the USA, Britain and Palestine, The American government, and the surviving Jewish communities in Europe. The Jewish possessions created a series of difficulties, diplomatic as well as economical and administrative. But as it soon turned out, first and foremost they created a political problem, deeply rooted in a battle field over the Jewish past, the victims’ memory and the link between the ruin of the European Jewry and the establishment of the State of Israel.
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