How One Zealous Looter Changed Jewish History in the Name of Its Preservation

Published: July 22, 2015, 4 a.m.

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In 1961, a librarian in a municipal archive in Strasbourg caught a visitor tearing pages out of a manuscript and stuffing them into his briefcase. The visitor, it turned out, was a widely respected historian who had done ground-breaking scholarship on the history of Jews in France.

It soon became apparent that this was not the first time Zosa Szajkowski had procured documents by questionable means. He\\u2019d been doing so for years, before, during and especially after the Holocaust, and the thousands of pages he\\u2019d collected had in turn been sold to important archives throughout the United States and Israel. Why did he...


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