ByJan Peczkison June 11, 2018

This work is centered on the Kovno ghetto in German-occupied Lithuania. The persecuted Jews had especially sought the advice of the highly regarded and scholarly Rabbi Ephraim Oshry (1914-2003). (Rabbi Oshry ended up being one of the few leading eastern-European rabbis that survived the German-made Holocaust).

AFTER THE HOLOCAUST: TO WHOM DOES LOST, STOLEN, OR TRANSFERRED PROPERTY BELONG?

My review centers on the topic of greatest and enduring relevance—that of wartime-caused disputes on rightful ownership. So-called property restitution has been in the news lately, especially with the recent passage of S. 447 by the U. S. House of Representatives, on a farcical voice-vote, followed by signature into law by President Trump.

 ByJan Peczkison June 20, 2018

Because this anthology has many topics, I focus on a few that are particularly relevant to current events.

“PROPERTY RESTITUTION” GENERATES MUCH PUBLICITY FOR THE HOLOCAUST ITSELF

One might intuitively think that the primacy of the Jews’ Holocaust, over the genocides of all other peoples, is what had made the “property restitution” demands of the Holocaust Industry newsworthy, and ostensibly credible, in the eyes of the general public. In actuality, it was and is just as much the other way around. It is effectively a feedback process. Author and restitution-lawyer Michael J. Bazyler tacitly highlights this fact, as he writes, “To everyone’s surprise, even to the participants themselves, this campaign would become a major political issue not only in Europe but also in the United States. One illustration of the prominence of the Holocaust restitution movement was that more news articles were published about the Holocaust between 1995 and 2000 than during the fifty preceding years, and most of these articles focused on Holocaust restitution.” (p. 339).

Działania zachodniej propagandy, które mają zmusić narody Środkowej i Wschodniej Europy do zaakceptowania dominacji Holocaustu oraz bagatelizowania własnej historii

Tłumaczenie recenzji Jana Peczkisa na temat książki pt. Holocaust Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Images, Memory, and the Ethics of Representation (revised edition) Gerd Bayer , Oleksandr Kobrynsky

Ta antologia może być przydatna, gdyż kataloguje wiele filmów związanych z Holokaustem. Dowiadujemy się również, że promocja Holokaustu, szczególnie w filmach, jest obecnie w dużym stopniu działaniem o charakterze międzynarodowym. Na przykład w latach 2000-2004 niemal 40 procent filmów o Holokauscie było przedsięwzięciami wielonarodowymi. (Kobryński i Bayer, str. 15).