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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 2002 16(2):266-288; doi:10.1093/hgs/16.2.266
© 2002 by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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The "Gemeinde Problem": The Jewish Restitution Successor Organization and the Postwar Jewish Communities in Germany, 1947–1954

Ayaka Takei1

1 Waseda University, Tokyo

In May 1945, little more than ownerless synagogues, deserted cemeteries, and bombed-out buildings remained of the once-prosperous German Jewish community. In order to prevent the German states from claiming heirless Jewish property in the U.S.-occupied zone, the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization was created. However, a small number of "reestablished" Jewish communities asserted their right to succeed to the communal properties. This article examines the legal and political confrontation that followed.


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