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Competing Frameworks For Assessing Contemporary Holocaust-Era Claims, Vivian Grosswald Curran Jan 2001

Competing Frameworks For Assessing Contemporary Holocaust-Era Claims, Vivian Grosswald Curran

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There are many angles from which to perceive the contemporary holocaust-era claims. In 1997, Time magazine quoted Elie Wiesel as saying that, [i]f all the money in all the Swiss banks were turned over, it would not bring back the life of one Jewish child. But the money is a symbol. It is part of the story. If you suppress any part of the story, it comes back later, with force and violence.

Wiesel touches on two perspectives: first, what has been described as litigating the holocaust, with all that that implies about the law's questionable capacity to adjudicate issues …


Burger-Fischer V. Degussa Ag: U.S. Courts Allow Siemens And Degussa To Profit From Holocaust Slave Labor, Kara C. Ryf Jan 2001

Burger-Fischer V. Degussa Ag: U.S. Courts Allow Siemens And Degussa To Profit From Holocaust Slave Labor, Kara C. Ryf

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

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