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1 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY BOOKS and SCHOLARLY ARTICLES 1. “Origins of the 'J' Passport,” In Re HOLOCAUST VICTIM ASSETS LITIGATION (Swiss Banks) SPECIAL MASTER’S PROPOSAL, September 11, 2000 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY BOOKS AND SCHOLARLY ARTICLES 1. “Origins of the ‘J’ Passport,” 8 Weiner Library Bulletin, No. 3-4 (1954). 2. “Swiss Jews in Occupied Europe,” 18 Weiner Library Bulletin, No. 4 (October 1964). 3. “Swiss Refugee Policy, 1933-45,” 12 Weiner Library Bulletin, Nos. 1-2 (1958). 4. “Swiss Rescue Efforts in 1944,” 16 Weiner Library Bulletin, No. 2, (April 1962). 5. Abella, Irving and Harold Troper, None is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948 (New York: Random House, 1982). 6. Acheson, Dean, Present at the Creation: My Years at the State Department (New York: W. W. Norton, 1969). 7. Adler-Rudel, Salomon, “The Evian Conference on the Refugee Question,” 8 Leo Baeck Institute Year Book (1968). 8. Allen, Keith, Unpublished Manuscript. (Copy on file with Special Master). 9. Allen, Keith, “Swiss Subsidiaries of German Firms,” Unpublished Research. (Copy on file with Special Master). 10. Altshuler, Mordechai, “Escape and Evacuation of Soviet Jews at the Time of the Nazi Invasion Policies and Realties,” in Lucjan Dobroszycki and Jeffrey S. Gurock, eds., The Holocaust in the Soviet Union: Studies and Sources on the Destruction of the Jews in the Nazi-Occupied Territories of the USSR, 1941-1945 (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1993). 11. Altshuler, Mordechai, “The Unique Features of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union,” in Yaacov R’oi, ed., Jews and Jewish Life in Russia and the Soviet Union (London: Frank Cass, 1995). 12. Aly, Gotz and Susanne Heim, “The Economics of the Final Solution: A Case Study from the General Government,” in 5 Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual (1988). 13. Aly, Gotz, “‘Jewish Resettlement:’ Reflections on the Political Prehistory of the Holocaust,” in Ulrich Herbert, ed., National Socialist Extermination Policies, (New York: Berghahn Books, 2000). 14. Arad, Yitzhak, “Soviet Jews in the War Against Nazi Germany,” 23 Yad Vashem Studies (Aharon Weiss, ed., Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1993) at 83. R&O-698622.1 1 In Re HOLOCAUST VICTIM ASSETS LITIGATION (Swiss Banks) SPECIAL MASTER’S PROPOSAL, September 11, 2000 15. Arad, Yitzhak, “The ‘Final Solution’ in Lithuania in the Light of German Documentation,” 11 Yad Vashem Studies (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1976). 16. Arad, Yitzhak, “The Holocaust of Soviet Jewry in the Occupied Territories of the Soviet Union,” 21 Yad Vashem Studies (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem,1991). 17. Arad, Yitzhak, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps, (Bloomington: Indiana University. Press, 1987). 18. Bajohr, Frank, “The Beneficiaries of ‘Aryanization’: Hamburg as a Case Study,” 26 Yad Vashem Studies (David Silberklang, ed., Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1998). 19. Ball-Kaduri, K.J., “Berlin is Purged of its Jews: The Jews in Berlin in the Year 1943,” 5 Yad Vashem Studies (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem 1963). 20. Barkai, Avraham, “Between East and West, Jews from Germany in the Lodz Ghetto,” 16 Yad Vashem Studies (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1984). 21. Barkai, Avraham, “German Entrepreneurs and Jewish Policy in the Third Reich,” 21 Yad Vashem Studies (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem,1991). 22. Barkai, Avraham, “German-Speaking Jews in Eastern European Ghettos,” 34 Leo Baeck Institute Year Book (1989). 23. Barkai, Avraham, From Boycott to Annihilation: The Economic Struggle of German Jews 1933-1943, (William Templer, trans., London: University Press of New England, 1989). 24. Baron, Salo W., Population, in 13 Encyclopedia Judaica (Jerusalem: Encyclopedia Judaica 1972). 25. Barzel, Neima, “Dignity, Hatred and Memory – Reparations from Germany: The Debates in the 1950’s,” 24 Yad Vashem Studies (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1994). 26. Bauer, Dr. Thomas, “The Search for Dormant Accounts – Publication – Filing of Claims – Third Party Information,” in Claims Resolution Process on Dormant Accounts in Switzerland. 27. Bauer, Yehuda, “Gypsies,” in Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum, eds., Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994). 28. Bauer, Yehuda, “The Death-Marches January-May, 1945,” 3 Modern Judaism (February 1983). 29. Bauer, Yehuda, A History of the Holocaust (New York: Franklin Watts, 1982). R&O-698622.1 2 In Re HOLOCAUST VICTIM ASSETS LITIGATION (Swiss Banks) SPECIAL MASTER’S PROPOSAL, September 11, 2000 30. Bauer, Yehuda, American Jewry and the Holocaust: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-1945 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1981). 31. Bauer, Yehuda, My Brother’s Keeper: A History of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1929-1939 (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1974). 32. Bazyler, Michael J., “Nuremberg in America: Litigating the Holocaust in United States Courts,” 33 University of Richmond Law Review (2000). 33. Beker, Avi, Jewish Communities of the World 1998-1999 (Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1998). 34. Bellon, Bernard P., Mercedes in Peace and War: German Automobile Workers, 1903- 1945 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990). 35. Bender, Sarah and Teresa Prekerowa, “Bialystok,” Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, (New York: Macmillan, 1990), 210-14. 36. Ben-Itto, Judge Hadassa. “Introductory Remarks to the Panel on Jurisdiction of the CRT and Different Types of Procedures,” Claims Resolution Process on Dormant Accounts in Switzerland. 37. Bentwich, Norman, “Nazi Spoliation and German Restitution,” 10 Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, (1965). 38. Berman, Harvey P., “The Agent Orange Veteran Payment Program,” 53 Law and Contemporary Problems No. 4 (“Claims Resolution Facilities and the Mass Settlement of Mass Torts”), (Autumn 1990). 39. Biesold, Horst, Crying Hands: Eugenics and Deaf People of Nazi Germany (Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 1999) (Introduction by Henry Friedlander). 40. Black, Peter, “Forced Labor in the Concentration Camps,” in Michael Berenbaum, ed., A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis, (New York and London: New York Univ. Press, 1990). 41. Blau, Bruno, “The Last Days of German Jewry in the Third Reich,” 8 YIVO Annual of Jewish Social Science (1953). 42. Bleuel, Hans, P., Sex and Society in Nazi Germany, (Heinrich Fraenkel ed., Maxwell Brownjohn, trans., Philadelphia: Lippincott 1973). 43. Borkin, Joseph, The Crime and Punishment of IG Farben, (New York: Free Press, 1978). 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Broggini, Renata, La Frontiera Della Speranza Gli ebrei dall’italia verso la Svizzera 1943-1945 (“The Frontier of Jewish Hope Against Switzerland”) (Milan: Mondadori 1995). 51. Broszat, Martin, “History of the Concentration Camps,” in Helmut Krausnick, et. al., eds., Anatomy of the SS-State, (New York: Walker, 1968). 52. Browning, Christopher R., “German Technocrats, Jewish Labor, and the Final Solution: A Reply to Gotz Aly and Susanne Heim,” in Christopher R. Browning, The Path to Genocide: Essays on Launching the Final Solution, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992). 53. Browning, Christopher R., “Germans and Serbs: The Emergence of Nazi Antipartisan Policies in 1941,” in Michael Berenbaum, ed., A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis, (New York: New York University Press, 1990). 54. Browning, Christopher R., Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). 55. 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