7: THE RETURN OF THE UNWANTED

  1.   Kakis, Legacy, pp. 229–31, 238.

  2.   Cecil Roth, “The Last Days of Jewish Salonica,” Commentary, 1 July 1950, pp. 49–55.

  3.   See “Bericht des Präsidiums” (1948); Brill, “An die Judenschaft” (1947); Liste der Israelit. Kultusgemeinde “Aus den Konzentrationslagern nach Wien zurückgekehrte Juden,” October 31, 1945, YVL 95–2247F. The rest of this section is based on these accounts.

  4.   Law of 21 March 1890, Reichsgesetzblatt fur die im Reichsrathe vertretenen Königreiche und Länder, Vienna, pp. 109–13.

  5.   Tausig, Shanghai, pp. 139–54; Embacher, Neubeginn (1995), pp. 123–32.

  6.   Kuszelewicz, Juif (2002), p. 10.

  7.   Cited in Messmer, Antisemitismus (1997), p. 444.

  8.   Herbert Rosenkranz, eyewitness testimony, February 1965, p. 20; Mircia Rosenkranz, eyewitness testimony, January 1967, p. 17, Yad Vashem Arch. 0.3, 2751, 3358.

  9.   Funke, Harbort, Erinnerung (1989), Sp. 141ff.

  10.   Ben-Simhon, “Schön ist die Rache in Gedanken,” in Berliner Zeitung, 19 November 2009.

  11.   Atamuk, Juden, pp. 217ff.

  12.   Smoliakovas, Nacht, pp. 16, 28; Messmer, Antisemitismus, pp. 447ff.

  13.   Atamuk, Juden, pp. 220, 250.

  14.   Margolis, Partisanin, pp. 232ff.

  15.   Cited in Šukys, Shame, p. 72.

  16.   WJC, Short Minutes, 31 October 1947.

  17.   Döblin, Reise, p. 147.

  18.   Gerlach and Aly, Kapitel, pp. 19–117, 127–48, 186–239, 259ff., 295ff., 409ff.

  19.   Kertesz, Flammen, pp. 174–202.

  20.   Kenez, Pogroms (2009), pp. 232–34.

  21.   Report H. Brenner, born Piller, 10 August 1992, Yad Vashem Arch. 0.3/6661; www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/oswiecim1/osw417.html, p. 429 (November 2015).

  22.   Report of the Anglo-American Committee (1946), pp. 12ff.

  23.   Lestschinsky, Migrations, pp. 1565ff.

  24.   Lestschinsky, Bilan de l’extermination.

  25.   WJC, Short Minutes, 31 March 1947.

  26.   Handgeschr. Chronik der Volksschule der israelit: Cultusgemeinde Mahrisch-Ostrau, 1899–1939, YVL 99–0970F.

  27.   Note by Eichmann, 6 October 1939, VEJ 4/18.

  28.   Elias, Hoffnung, pp. 249, 273–76, 299–310. Peter Erben, who also grew up in Moravian Ostrau, described similar experiences, See his Spuren, pp. 81–85.

  29.   WJC, Memorandum (1947).