Figure 1. Map of looting locations by the Nazi Party ERR, 1940–1945. Courtesy of Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem (Isaac Bencowitz Album).

Figure 2. Storage of looted archival materials from Smolensk in a Benedictine monastery, Vilna, 1943. Courtesy of Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem (Isaac Bencowitz Album).

Figure 3. Sorting of the YIVO library in Vilna by forced laborers of the ERR. Courtesy of Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem (Isaac Bencowitz Album).

Figure 4. The packing and transporting of looted materials from Vilna by the ERR, April 1943. Courtesy of Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem (Isaac Bencowitz Album).

Figure 5. Map of the MFA&A on the distribution of books from Offenbach Archival Depot, 1946. Courtesy of Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem (Isaac Bencowitz Album).

Figure 6. Library stamps and ex libris (bookplates) from the Offenbach Archival Depot, 1946. © National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD (RG 260, M1942, Ardelia Hall Collection, roll 12: Library Markings; roll 13: Ex-Libris; Isaac Bencowitz Albums).

Figure 7. Books of Jewish provenance in the Offenbach Archival Depot that could not be definitively identified, 1946. Courtesy of Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem (Isaac Bencowitz Album).

Figure 8. Employees in front of the Offenbach Archival Depot building, 1946. Courtesy of Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem (Isaac Bencowitz Album).

Figure 9. Employees of the Offenbach Archival Depot sorting through books, 1946. Courtesy of Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem (Isaac Bencowitz Album).

Figure 10. The conservation and restoration workshop for books in the Offenbach Archival Depot, 1946. Courtesy of Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem (Isaac Bencowitz Album).

Figure 11. Employees of the Offenbach Archival Depot packing books, 1946. Courtesy of Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem (Isaac Bencowitz Album).

Figure 12. The American military rabbi Isaiah Rachowsky working in the Offenbach Archival Depot. Courtesy of Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem (Isaac Bencowitz Album).

Figure 13. Koppel S. Pinson (middle) chooses materials from the Offenbach Archival Depot to loan to the Displaced Persons camps, 1946. Courtesy of Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem (Isaac Bencowitz Album).

Figure 14. A cabinet for a silver menorah, Torah plates, and ritual objects in the Offenbach Archival Depot, 1946. Courtesy of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC.

Figure 15. A room for synagogue textiles in the Offenbach Archival Depot, 1946. Courtesy of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC.

Figure 16. Torah scrolls in the Offenbach Archival Depot, 1946. Courtesy of Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem (Isaac Bencowitz Album).

Figure 17. Ex libris (bookplate) of the JCR. © Elisabeth Gallas

Figure 18. The burial of ruined Torah scrolls from the inventory of objects looted by the ERR, carried out for the JCR by Salo W. Baron (second from the left) and the Synagogue Council of America, Paramus, NJ, January 13, 1952. Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA.

Figure 19. Dinner (a so-called Testimonial Dinner) for the employees of the JCR at the Schreiber restaurant in New York, December 21, 1951. From left to right: Wolf Blattberg, Philip Friedman, Irwin Weintroub, Joseph Reider, Aaron Margalit, Lawrence Marwick, Chaim Wormann, Alexander Marx, Salo W. Baron, Hannah Arendt, Jacob Novak-Schwimmer, Isaac E. Kiev, M. Gruber, Isaac Goldberg, Jacob Dienstag, Sylvia Landress, David Rosenstein; in front: Dr. Popper. Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA.

Figure 20. Lucy S. Dawidowicz in Prague, March 1947. Courtesy of Laurie Sapakoff Cohen, private collection.

Figure 21. Lucy Ruth Schildkret’s (Dawidowicz) United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) ID card for traveling to Germany as an employee of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1946/47. Courtesy of American Jewish Historical Society, Newton Center, MA and NY.

Figure 22. Gershom Scholem at the Offenbach Archival Depot, July/August 1946. Courtesy of Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem (Isaac Bencowitz Album).

Figure 23. Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), July 1, 1958. Courtesy of ullstein bild.

Figure 24. Salo W. Baron (1895–1989). Courtesy of Leo Baeck Institute, New York.