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Displaced Cultural Treasures as a Result of World War II and Restitution Issues

A bibliography of publications by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted

First published January 31, 2002

Books

2011

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Reconstructing the Record of Nazi cultural plunder. A survey of the dispersed archives of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR). Research Paper 47 (Amsterdam, IISG, 2011)

See full text at: www.iisg.nl/publications/errsurvey/

2007

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Returned from Russia: Nazi Archival Plunder in Western Europe and Recent Restitution Issues. Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, F.J. Hoogewoud, and Eric Ketelaar (eds.) (Institute of Art and Law (UK), 2007) See the flyer at: www.ial.uk.com/RfRflyer.pdf

2005

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Vozvrashchenie "Smolenskogo Arkhiva" = The Return of the "Smolensk Archive". Bilingual edition, edited by Marianna Tax Choldin, Ekateriana Genieva, and Patricia Kennedy Grimsted
(Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2005.)

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"Praz'ki arkhivy" u Kyievi ta Moskvi. Povoienni rozshuky i vyvezennia emihratsiinoï arkhivnoï Ukraïniky [The "Prague Archives" in Kyiv and Moscow: Postwar Retrieval of Émigré Archival Ucrainica]. Translated with documentary appendices by Tetiany Boriak
(Kyiv: Derzhkomarkhiv, 2005).
Table of contents with full electronic text (html): www.archives.gov.ua/Publicat/Grimsted_P_K/

2003

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The Odyssey of the Turgenev Library from Paris, 1940-2002. Books as Victims and Trophies of War
Research Paper 42 (Amsterdam, IISG, 2003).
Text at  IISH Research Paper PDF 4509 Kb.
   Publication with appended bibliography, location information, images of book stanps, and several relevant documents. A Russian version is also planned in Moscow.
   For a version on cd-rom enquire at: irsh@iisg.nl
   Only 119 volumes of the pre-1939 Turgenev Library has been returned to Paris out of the 100,000 volumes that were seized and taken to Berlin by the Nazis in 1940-1941. There were several Soviet attestations to its wartime destruction, but recently, documents have been found and books themselves bearing the library stamp, proving that a large part of the library was recovered by Soviet authorities. While many books have recently been located in Moscow and Minsk, some were destroyed in Soviet library 'cleansing' and others widely dispersed. Records of the library administration have been located in Moscow.

2001

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U.S. Restitution of Nazi-Looted Cultural Treasures to the USSR, 1945-1959: Facsimile Documents from the National Archives of the United States.
Compiled with an Introduction by P.K. Grimsted. Foreword by Michael J. Kurtz.
CD-ROM edition. (Washington, DC: GPO, 2001). Prepared in collaboration with the U.S. National Archives. Free copies can be ordered from the National Archives in Washington DC.
Table of contents and text of the introduction  (PDF file, 2,24 Mb.). Presented with permission of NARA.
   An article summarizing the introduction was published in the spring 2002 issue of Prologue (journal of NARA). See number 32 of this bibliography. Ten paper copies were prepared of an initial Special Presentation Edition for the Conference: 'Mapping Europe: Fate of Looted Cultural Valuables in the Third Millennium', 10-11 April 2000, All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature (VGBIL), Moscow. Three of those copies were presented in Moscow and two in Kyiv, but the Introduction to the CD-ROM edition has been updated and reedited.

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Trophies of War and Empire: The Archival Heritage of Ukraine, World War II, and the International Politics of Restitution. Foreword by Charles Kecskeméti.
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press for the Ukrainian Research Institute, 2001) 'Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies'
   See the descriptive article about the book prepared by the Deputy Chief of the State Committee on Archives of Ukraine, Gennadii Boriak, in: Arkhivy Ukraïny (2001) no. 5/6
Summary and order information in English:
www.archives.gov.ua/Eng/Patricia.php
Summary and order information in Ukranian:
www.archives.gov.ua/Publicat/Researches/Patricia.php

1998

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Archives of Russia Seven Years After: 'Purveyors of Sensations' or 'Shadows Cast out to the Past.'
Washington, DC: Cold War International History Project, 1998. - 'Working Paper', no. 20.
Text, Part 1 (PDF file, 806 Kb.)
Text, Part 2 (PDF file, 244 Kb.)
   Original edition: Archives of Russia Five Years After: 'Purveyors of Sensations' or 'Shadows Cast out to the Past.'
   Amsterdam: IISH, 1997. - 'Research Paper,' no. 26.  Text at  IISH Research Paper 26
   (Chapter 8 deals with 'trophy' archives and restitution issues, but a condensed and updated version of that chapter was republished as an article in Problems of Post-Communism (see below no.8)
   A Russian translation was prepared in Moscow at Memorial, but never reedited for publication.

1995

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The Odyssey of the Smolensk Party Archive : Communist Archives for the Service of Anti-Communism.
(Pittsburgh: Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 1995) 'Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies' no. 1201.
Text (PDF file, 445 Kb.) Presented with permission of the Carl Beck Papers at the University of Pittsburgh, Center for Russian & East European Studies.
   A shortened version appears as a three-part article in 1999: Zeitschrift für Sozialgeschichte des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts, part 1: (1997) heft 4 71-91; part 2: (1998) heft 5; part 3: (1999) heft 6. See the updated publication after the archive was returned to Russia in December 2002 (above, no.50).

1991

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Dolia skarbiv Ukrains'koi kul'tury pid chas druhoi svitovoi viiny: Vynyshchennia arkhiviv, bibliotek, muzeiv [The Fate of Ukrainian Cultural Treasures during the Second World War: Plundered Archives, Libraries, and Museums] (In Ukrainian).
Ukrainian version with the collaboration and translation of Gennadi Boriak.
(Kyiv: Arkheohrafichna komisiia AN URSR, 1991) - 2d edition, Lviv, 1992.
   Abridged edition: in Pam'iatky Ukraïny 26(1994)nos. 3-6 92-105.
   Expanded with documentary appendixes from the article published in English in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (Winter 1991). See no.24 of this bibliography.

Articles (or Chapters of Monographs)

2010

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"Introduction," Spoils of War v. Cultural Heritage: The Russian Cultural Property Law in Historical Context. Edited by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, as guest editor for the issue: International Journal of Cultural Property 17, no. 2 (2010). (a collection of articles base on the proceedings of a Workshop at the Harvard Law School, February 8-9, 2008. pp. 139-46

Full text available at: journals.cambridge.org/repo_A79v5jr3
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"Legalizing 'Compensation' and the Spoils of War: The Russian Law on Displaced Cultural Valuables and the Manipulation of Historical Memory," Spoils of War v. Cultural Heritage: The Russian Cultural Property Law in Historical Context. Edited by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, as guest editor for the issue: International Journal of Cultural Property 17, no. 2 (2010). (a collection of articles base on the proceedings of a Workshop at the Harvard Law School, February 8-9, 2008. pp. 217-56

Full text available at: journals.cambridge.org/repo_A79oVE2N
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"Why Do Captured Archives Go Home?: Restitution Achievements under the Russian Law," Spoils of War v. Cultural Heritage: The Russian Cultural Property Law in Historical Context. Edited by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, as guest editor for the issue: International Journal of Cultural Property 17, no. 2 (2010). (a collection of articles base on the proceedings of a Workshop at the Harvard Law School, February 8-9, 2008. pp. 291-334

Full text available at: journals.cambridge.org/repo_A79s6YVA
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"Federal Law on Cultural Valuables Displaced to the USSR as a Result of the Second World War and Located on the Territory of the Russian Federation", No. 64-FZ of 15 April 1998 (with amendments), translated by Konstantin Akinsha and Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, Appendix 1: Spoils of War v. Cultural Heritage: The Russian Cultural Property Law in Historical Context. Edited by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, as guest editor for the issue: International Journal of Cultural Property 17, no. 2 (2010). (a collection of articles base on the proceedings of a Workshop at the Harvard Law School, February 8-9, 2008. pp. 413-26

Full text available at: journals.cambridge.org/repo_A79QSVVJ
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"Russian Legal Instruments Relating to Cultural Valuables Displaced as a Result of the Second World War, 1990-2009," compiled by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, Appendix 2: Spoils of War v. Cultural Heritage: The Russian Cultural Property Law in Historical Context. Edited by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, as guest editor for the issue: International Journal of Cultural Property 17, no. 2 (2010). (a collection of articles base on the proceedings of a Workshop at the Harvard Law School, February 8-9, 2008. pp. 427-91.

Full text available at: journals.cambridge.org/repo_A790ovam
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"Progress in the Return of Displaced Archives from Russia: Steps Forward and Hurdles Ahead." Art, Antiquity and Law XV, Issue 3 (October 2010), pp. 224-51.

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"The Postwar Fate of Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg Archival and Library Plunder, and the Dispersal of ERR Records." Journal of Art Crime IV (Fall 2010), pp. 23-47.

2009

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Patricia Grimsted, "Documenting Looted Art: Perspectives from the Archives of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR)," (presented at the Archives Section of the Working Group on Looted Art, EU Holocaust Era Assets Conference 26 June, Prague, 2009).

Full text available at: www.holocausteraassets.eu/en/working-groups/looted-art/
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Patricia Grimsted, “Perspectives from Remaining Archives of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) and the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA),” (presented at the Working Group on Judaica and Jewish Cultural Property, EU Holocaust Era Assets Conference, Prague, 2009).

Full text available at: www.holocausteraassets.eu/en/working-groups/judaica-and-jewish-cultural-property/
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Patricia Grimsted, “Books for Tractors?: Interwar Dispersal and Sale of the Russian Imperial Palace Libraries,” in Anne Odom and Wendy Salmond, The selling of Russia's cultural heritage 1918-1938 (Washington DC: Hillwood Museum, 2009).

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'From Nazi Plunder to Russian Restitution: The international framework for the restitution of Archives' In: Witnesses to History: Documents and Writings on the Return of Cultural Objects, Lyndel Prott (ed.) (Paris: UNESCO, 2009), pp. 295-99. Extracted and adapted from Returned from Russia: Nazi Archival Plunder in Western Europe and Recent Restitution Issues. Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, F.J. Hoogewoud, and Eric Ketelaar (eds.). (Institute of Art and Law (UK), 2007).

2008

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'"Books for Tractors?": Interwar Dispersal and Sale of the Russian Imperial Palace Libraries' In: Treasures into Tractors: The Selling of Russia's Cultural Heritage 1918-1938, Anne Odom and Wendy Salmond (eds.). Published as Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 2008-2009
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Geplünderte jüdische Archive in Osteuropa: Kriegsbeute aus dem ehemaligen Sonderarchiv in Moskau. In: Raub und Restitution: Kulturgut aus jdischem besitz von 1933 bis Heute, edited by Inka Bertz and Michael Dorrmann (Berlin: Wallstein Verlag; Jüdisches Museum Berlin, 2008), pp. 17987.
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Sudeten Crossroads for Europes Displaced Books: The Mysterious Twilight of the RSHA Amt VII Library and the Fate of a Million Victims of War. In: Restitution of Confiscated WorksWish or Reality? Documentation, identification and restitution of Cultural property of the victims of World War II. Proceedings of the international academic conference held in Liberec, 24-26 October 2007 (Prague, 2008), pp. 123-80. Full Text: Full text (PDF file 4,52 Mb)
Also published in Czech edition.

2006

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'Pokhishchennye natsistami knigi vozvrashchaiutsia s voiny: zabytaia istoriia britanskoi i amerikanskoi bibliotechnoi restitutsii v SSSR' [Plundered Books that Came Home from the War: Forgotten U.S. and British Library Restitution to the USSR], Istoriia bibliotek. Sbornik nauchnykh trudov 6 (St. Petersburg: Rossiiskaia natsional'naia biblioteka, 2006) 242-93. Originally presented as a paper at the Russian Library Association, Section for the History of the Book, St. Petersburg conference (May 2005). Includes images and facsimiles of Russian documents regarding postwar American and British library restitution, which earlier has been omitted in Russian/Soviet accounts.

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'Silesian Crossroads for Europe's Displaced Books: Compensation or Prisoners of War?' In: The Future of the Lost Cultural Heritage: The documentation, identification and restitutionof the cultural assets of WW II victims. Proceedings of the international academic conference in Cesky Krumlov (22.-24.11. 2005), Me?islav Borák (ed.) (Prague: Documentation Centre for Property Transfers of he Cultural Assets of WW II Victims, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Tilia Publishers, 2006) 133-69. Cover PDF)
Full Text: Full text (PDF file 1,23 Mb)
Also published in Czech edition.

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Soviet Retrieval of the "Prague Ukrainian Archives"' In: Muzeum osvobozeneckého boje Ukrajiny: K 80. výo?i založeni. Sbornik p?isp?vk? z konference (Praha, 12.-14. ?ijna 2005)/ Muzei Vyzvol'noï Bort'by Ukraïny: Do 80-ï richnytsi zasnuvannia. Sbirnyk materialiv konferentsiï (Praha, 12-14 zhovtnia 2005 r.) / The Museum of the Struggle for Liberation of Ukraine. In commemoration of 80th anniversary. Proceedings of a Conference (Prague, October 12th to 14th 2005), Dagmar Petišková (ed.)(Prague: Národni knihovna, 2006) 53-65.

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'The Sárospatak Case: Rare Books Return to Hungary from Nizhnii Novgorod. A New Precedent for Russian Cultural Restitution?' Art, Antiquiy and Law 11, issue 2 (2006) 215-49. [with Konstantin Akinsha].
Full Text: Full text (PDF file 3,08 Mb)

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'Postwar Fate of Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg Archival and Library Plunder and the Dispersed ERR Records', Holocaust and Genocide Studies 20, no. 2 (Fall 2006) 279-308
Supplement to 'Roads to Ratibor,' in HGS (2005) listed below (no.57)
Abstract: Abstract
Full Text: Full text
PDF:PDF 213 Kb

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'Tracing Patterns of European Library Plunder: Books Still not Home from the War', in: Jüdischer Buchbesitz als Raubgut. Zweites Hannoversches Symposium, Regine Dehnel (ed.) (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann 2006) Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie vol. 88) 139-67.

2005

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Trofeinye knigi iz Zapadnoi Evropy: Doroga v Minsk cherez Ratibor (Ratsibyzh). Ograblenie bibliotek ERR (Einsatzshtabom Rozenberga) [The Road to Minsk (via Ratibor) for Western 'Trophy' Books, in: Matieryialy trietsikh mizhnarodnykh knihaznuchykh chytanniau "Kniha Belarusi: Poviaz' chasoi" (Minsk, 16-17 verasnia 2003 g.) (Minsk: Natsyianal'naia bibiliatieka Belarusi, 2005), 39-90.
From a presentation at the conferenceat the National Library of Belarus, Minsk, 16 September 2003. See English version: "The Road to Minsk" (2004) below (nr. 44)

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'Turgenevskaia biblioteka v Parizhe: Knigi kak zhertvy i trofei voiny' [The Turgenev Library in Paris. Books as Victims and Trophies of War]. in: Dokumental'noe nasledie po istorii russkoi kul'tury v otechestvennykh arkhivakh i za rubezhom. Materialy Mezhdunarodnooi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsiki, Moskva, 29-30 oktiabria 2003 g. (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2005) 322-42.

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'Knigi iz Tsarskogo Sela vozvrashchaiutsia domoi s voiny' [Books from Tsarskoe Selo Return from the War]. Kniga. Issledovaniia i materialy/ Book. Researches and Materials, Sbornik 84 (Moscow: Nauka, 2005) 72-94.

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'Roads to Ratibor: Library and Archival Plunder by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg', Holocaust and Genocide Studies 19, no. 3 (Winter 2005) 390-458.
Electronic version: Roads etc. (PDF file, 496 Kb.)
Cover: Cover roads etc. (doc)

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'Dvazhdy zkhvachennye ili 'dvazhdy spasennye'? Rozysk rossiiskikh 'trofeinykyh' arkhivov i dobycha Glavnogo upravleniia imperskoi bezopasnosti', Sotsial'naia istoriia. Ezhegodnik 2004 (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2005) 401-455.
Revised and updated from the English 2001 version listed below (no.7).

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'The Fate of the Kyiv Central Archive of Early Acts: A Triple Tragedy of Destruction, Plunder, and Propaganda'
In: Synopsis: A Collection of Essays in Honour of Zenon E. Kohut ed. Serhii Plokhy and Frank E. Sysyn (Edmunton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2005); also published serially as Canadian Journal of Ukrainian Studies 29 (Summer-Winter 2004) 73-114. Updated from the Ukrainian 2004 version listed below nr.41
Electronic version: Kyiv archives etc. (PDF file, 150 Kb.)

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'Tracing 'Trophy' Books in Russia'
Solanus 19 (2005) 131-45 Cover
Electronic version: PDF file, 291 Kb
Reprint version issued in English and Russian in: Seventh International Workshop Electronic Resources and International Information Exchange: East-West. Workshop Proceedings (Washington, New York, 2005; State Public Scientific and Technical Library/ Gosudarstvennaia publichnaia nauchno-tekhnicheskaia biblioteka) 38-54.
Russian version:: "Po sledam trofeinykh sobranii. Problemy v proslezhivanii sud'by 'trofeinykh' knig v Rossii," in: 7-i Mezhdunarodnyi seminar "Elektronnye resursy i mezhdunarodnyi obmen: Vostok-zapad," Trudy Seminara (Moscow, 2005) 23-41.

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'Flying Mercury Returns to Pavlovsk: Perspectives on the Return of Wartime Cultural Trophies in Austria and Russia'
Art, Antiquiy and Law 10, issue 2 (2005) 107-147 Cover
Electronic version: PDF file, 215 Kb
Updated and revised from the German publication in Graz (below nr. 55)

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'Vom 'Fliegenden Merkur' zu den Büchern der Sammlung Esterhazy: Kulturelle Restitution an die UdSSR durch die westlichen Besatzungsmächte in Österreich und sowjetisches Beutegut österreichischer Herkunft'
In: Die Rote Armee in Österreich. Sowjetische Besatzung 1945-1955. Beiträge, eds. Stefan Karner and Barbara Stelzl-Marx (Graz/Vienna/Klagenfurt: Ludwig Boltzmann Institute für Kriegsfolgen-Forschung, 2005) 363-90.
See the English published version, "Flying Mercury" above above nr.54)

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'Dwukrotnie zrabowane i nadal z dala od ojczyzny. Losy trzech bibliotek s?owianskich przej?tych przez nazistów w Paryzu'
In: Archeion 106 (2003 [2005]) 47-84
Updated from the English version in Solanus 16 (2002)

2004

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'Rare Books from Voronezh in Tartu and Tanzenberg: From Nazi Plunder and British Restitution to Russian "Lost Book Treasures"'
In: Solanus, 18 (2004) 72-107

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'Von Bernsteinzimmer zu dem Büchern der Russischen Zarenpaläste: Identifikation und Rekonstruktion verbrachter Kulturschätze'
In: Kulturgüter - Möglichkeiten und Perspektiven einer gesamteuropäischen Zusammenarbeit. Materialien der internationalen Konferenz Kulturelle Zusammenarbeit in Europa: Fragen der Erhaltung und des Schutzes von Kulturgütern, St. Petersburg, 12. Mai 2003 (Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2004) 108-52.
Russian version: 'Ot Iantarnoi komnaty k knigam iz russkogo imperatorskogo dvortsa. Identifikatsiia i rekonstruktsiia peremeshchennykh kul'turnykh tsennostei'
In: Kul'turnye tsennosti: Vozmozhnosti i perspektivy obshcheevropeiskogo sotrudnichestva. Sbornik materialov mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii Kul'turnoe sotrudnichestvo v Evrope: problemy sokhraneniia i okhrany kul'turnykh tsennostei, Sankt-Peterburg, 12 Maia 2003 g. (Moscow: Rudomino, 2004) 208-52.

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'Displaced Archives on the Eastern Front: Reflections on Unresolved Legal, Political, and Humanitarian Issues' Prepared for the International Congress on Archives, Vienna, 25 August 2004
English and Russian versions on the Conference website

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'The Road to Minsk for Western 'Trophy' Books: Twice Plundered but Not Yet Home from the War'
Libraries & Culture, 30, no. 4 (Fall 2004) 351-404. Cover (PDF)
Electronic version: PDF File 513 Kb

2003

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Dolia Kyiivskoho Tsentral'noho arkhivu davnikh aktiv: Potriina tragediia - nyshchennia, pohrabuvannia, propahandy [The Fate of the Kyiv Central Archive of Early Acts: A Triple Tragedy of Destruction, Plunder, and Propaganda]
In: Arkhivy Ukrainy, 2003, no. 4-6 47-76.
Electronic version: Kyiv etc. PDF File of the complete issue 34,19 MB
   English version see nr.

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'Bach Is Back in Berlin: The Return of the Sing-Akademie Archive from Ukraine in the Context of Displaced Cultural Treasures and Restitution Politics'
In: Spoils of War: International Newsletter, no.8 (June 2003) 67-104.
Electronic version: Ukrainian Research Institute Working Papers (April 2003). Presented with permission of HURI
   An earlier version was issued as a research report by the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, Washington, DC.

2002

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Problemy razgrableniia i vozvrashcheniia chastnykh kollektsii: Vostok i Zapad-Bakh vozvrashchaetsia v Berlin = Probleme des Raubs und der Restitution von Privatsammlungen: Ost und West - Bach geht zurück nach Berlin
In: Trudnaia sud'ba kul'turnykh tsennostei: Materialy mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii "Chastnoe pravo i problemy restitutsii peremeshcennykh kul'turnykh tsennostei," Moskva, 27 i 28 maia 2002 g.= Das schwierige Schicksal von Kulturgütern: Materialien der internationalen Konferenz 'Privatrecht und Probleme der Restitution von kriegsbedingt verbrachten Kulturgütern,' Moskau, 27. und 28. Mai 2002 (Berlin: BWV - Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag/ Moscow: Rudomino, 2002) 200-215 (Russian); 216-232 (German).
Electronic version at: VGBIL
   "[Patterns of Plunder and Restitution of Private Collections-East and West: Bach Goes Back to Berlin]."  Published in Russian and German with the proceedings of the Conference at the All-Russian State Library of Foreign Literature (VGBIL): "Private Law and Issues of Restitution of Cultural Valuables, Moscow, May 2002.

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'Twice Plundered, but Still Not Home from the War: The Fate of Three Slavic Libraries Confiscated by the Nazis from Paris'
Solanus, 16 (2002) 39-76
Text (PDF file, 380 Kb.) Presented with permission of  'Solanus'
Updated in Polish translation in Archeion (no.56 above)

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Spoils of War Returned. U.S. Restitution of Nazi-Looted Cultural Treasures to the USSR, 1945-1959
In: Prologue. Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration 34(1), Spring 2002, 27-41.
See: 'Prologue' at the National Archives website
See also: Text (DOC file, 102 Kb.) Presented with permission of NARA.
   A condensed version of the "Introduction" to the NARA-issued CD-ROM on U.S. postwar restitution to the USSR (see no.1)

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Russia's Trophy Archives: Still Prisoners of World War II?
Budapest: Open Society Archives, Central European University. Electronic publication February 2002
Text (PDF file, 257 Kb.) Presented with permission of the Open Society Archives
   Updated from a Lecture at the Summer University, 17 July 2001. A Russian translation is being prepared.
   Variant edition: Issued as a 'Working Paper' by the National Council for East European and Eurasian Research, Washington, DC.

2001

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Russia's Trophy Archives: An Update on Restitution Issues.
Presented at a seminar at the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam), 24 September 2001
Text (PDF file, 114 Kb.)

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'Twice Plundered or Twice Saved? : Russia's 'Trophy' Archives and the Loot of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt'
In: Holocaust and Genocide Studies 15(2001)no.2 191-244.
Abstract at: Twice plundered etc. Updated Russian version publishe in Moscow in 2005 (seenp.51 above).

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'Zhesty dobroï voli ta deiaki nevyrisheni problemy pisliavoennykh restytutsii' [Gestures of Goodwill and Unresolved Problems of Postwar Restitution].
In: Arkhivoznavstvo. Arkheohrafiia. Dzhereloznavstvo: Mizhvidomchyi zbirnyk naukovykh prats', vol. 4: Studiïi na poshanu Ruslana Pyroha, ed. H. V. Boriak et al. (Kyiv, 2001) 285-299.
   An expanded and updated Ukrainian-language version of the April 2001 VGBIL report. P.K. Grimsted has an unedited English-language text from which the Ukrainian version was prepared, being revised for publication on the HURI website.

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'Zhesty dobroi voli i nezakonchennoe delo poslevoennoi restitutsii'
In: Zhesty dobroi voli i zakonodatel'stvo / Gesten des guten Willens und Gesetzgebung, ed. E.Iu.Genieva, Klaus Michaletz, and Olaf Werner (Berlin: Verlag Arno Spitz; Moscow: Rudomino, 2001) 126-131.
German version: 'Die Gesten des guten Willens und die unbeendete Sache der Nachkriegsrestitution'
In: ibid 132-137.
   [Report transmitted for the seminar): 'Legislation and Gestures of Goodwill', 24-25 April 2001, Moscow, All-Russian Library of Foreign Literature (VGBIL)]

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Odisseia 'Berlin - Ullersdorf - ? - Kyïv': Do istorï peremishchennia arkhivu Akademiï spivu v Berlini pid Chas i pislia Druhoï svitovoï viiny [Odyssey 'Berlin - Ullersdorf - ? - Kyiv': Towards a History of the Displacement of the Berlin Sing Akademie's Archive During and After World War II], translated by H.V. Boriak.
In: Arkhivy Ukrainy (2001)no. 3 26-39.
Text at: Archives of Ukraine

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Les prises de guerre de l'Armée rouge: Témoignage de Patricia Kennedy Grimsted (interview by Pierre Mollier).
L'Histoire (2001)no. 256 (July-August) 84-85.

2000

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'Survivors of the Holocaust: Displaced Books and Archives Plundered from Enemies of the Nazi Regime'
In: Proceedings of the Vilnius Forum on Holocaust-Era Cultural Assets (October 2000)
Text - at web site of the Vilnius International Forum.
   See also the Grimsted comments in the archival section of the Forum.

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U.S. Restitution of Nazi-Looted Cultural Treasures to the USSR, 1945-1959
In: Proceedings of the Moscow Conference at the All-Russian Library for Foreign Literature (2000)
Text  at the website of the International Seminar "Private Law and Issues of Restitution of Cultural Valuables", All-Ruissia State Library for Foreign Literature, 27-28 May 2002
   Printed version in preparation.

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B-8A (now part of B-8). Holdings from the former Tsentr khraneniia istoriko-dokumental'nykh kollektsii (TsKhIDK) [Centre for Preservation of Historico-Documentary Collections].
In: Archives of Russia. A Directory and Bibliographic Guide to Holdings in Moscow and St.Petersburg New York, M.E.Sharpe, 2000. Volume 1 225-230
Updated at the IISH ArcheoBiblioBase website, no.B-8A
    Guide to the so-called Special Archive (Osobyi arkiv-TsGOA)

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Dvazhdy ukradennye ili dvazhdy spasennye? Identifikatsiia russkikh 'trofeinykh' arkhivov i natsistskikh uchrezhdenii, konfiskovavshikh ikh [Twice Plundered or Twice Saved? : Russia's 'Trophy' Archives and the Nazi Agencies That Confiscated Them]
Published in the proceedings of the Moscow conference
Text - at web site of the All-Russian Library for Foreign Literature
   Printed version in press.

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Twice Plundered or Twice Saved? Identifying Russia's 'Trophy' Archives and the Nazi Agencies of Their Plunder.
   The English version was revised for the proceedings of the April 2000 Moscow Conference at the All-Russian Library for Foreign Literature (VGBIL). It is NOT being included in the printed version but is being prepared for the VGBIL conference website with updated notes (as of December 2001).

1999

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'The Odyssey of the Petliura Library and the Records of the Ukrainian National Republic (UNR) during World War II' [part 1]
Harvard Ukrainian Studies 22(1999) 181-208 [= Cultures and Nations of Central and Eastern Europe: Essays in Honor of Roman Szporluk, ed. Zvi Gitelman et al.]
Text  (PDF file, 109 Kb.)
'The Postwar Fate of the Petliura Library and the Records of the Ukrainian National Republic' [part 2]
Harvard Ukrainian Studies 21(1997 [2001]) 393-461.
Text  (PDF file, 239 Kb.)
Both articles published with the kind permission of Harvard Ukrainian Studies

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'Bach Scores in Kyiv: The Long-Lost Music Archive of the Berlin Sing-Akademie Surfaces in Ukraine'
Spoils of War: International Newsletter (2000), no. 7 August 23-35.
Text at HURI Working Papers Presented with permission of HURI.
   Russian version: 'Partitury Bakha v Kieve: Na Ukraine obnaruzheny davno propavshie noty Berlinskoi Zing-Akademii'
    Voennye trofei: Mezhdunarodnyi biulletin', (2000)no. 7 August 16-24.

1998

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'"Trophy" Archives and Non-Restitution: Russia's Cultural 'Cold War' with the European Community'
In: Problems of Post-Communism 45(1998)no. 3(May/June) 3-16.
   Based on Chapter 8 of Grimsted's monograph Russian Archives Five Years After, published by IISH, listed below, no.26 of this bibliography.

1997

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'The Odyssey of the Smolensk Archive. Plundered Communist Records'
1999: Zeitschrift für Sozialgeschichte des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts (in 3 parts) (1997) heft 4 71-91; (1998) heft 2 190-201; (1999) heft 1 134-151.
   A condensed version of Grimsted's monograph The Odyssey of the Smolensk Archive listed above no.3 of this bibliography, published in Pittsburgh.

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'New Clues in the Records of Archival and Library Plunder: The ERR and RSHA Amt VII Operations in Silesia'
In: The Return of Looted Collections (1946-1996). An Unfinished Chapter - Proceedings of an International Symposium to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Return of Dutch Collections from Germany, ed. F. J. Hoogewoud, E.P. Kwaardgras et al. (Amsterdam: IISH, 1997) 52-67.

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'Displaced Archives and Restitution Problems on the Eastern Front from World War II and its Aftermath'
Contemporary European History 6(1997)no.1 27-74.

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'Captured Archives and Restitution Problems on the Eastern Front: Beyond the Bard Graduate Center Symposium'
The Spoils of War: World War II and Its Aftermath: The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Property, ed. Elizabeth Simpson (New York: Henry N. Abrams, 1997) 244-251, 270-271.

1996

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'Displaced Archives and Restitution Problems on the Eastern Front from World War II and its Aftermath'
Janus: Revue Archivistique / Archival Review (1996)no. 2 44-76.
   German version: 'Verschleppte Archive im Bereich der Ostfront: Aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg und seinen Folgen resultierende Rückgabeprobleme'
   In: Quatuor Coronati Jahrbuch, (1996)no. 33 23-60.

1991

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'The Fate of Ukrainian Cultural Treasures during World War II: The Plunder of Archives, Libraries, and Museums under the Third Reich'
In: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 39(1991)no. 1 53-80.
   See also the expanded Ukrainian monograph with the collaboration and translation of Gennadi Boriak (Kyiv: Archeographic Commission, 1991). No.4 of this bibliography.

Research/Working Papers

1995

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Displaced Archives on the Eastern Front: Restitution Problems from World War II and its Aftermath.
Amsterdam: IISH, 1995. - 36 p. - 'IISH Research Papers', no. 18.
   Updated versions appeared as an article in Janus: Revue Archivistique / Archival Review (International Council of Archives)(see above no.23 of this bibliography) and Contemporary European History (see above no.21 of this bibliography).


Publications Related to Archival Rossica Repatriation / Restitution Problems (includes some coverage of World War II displaced archives and restitution issues)

2003

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Russian Attitudes Towards Archival Rossica Abroad: Cultural Reintegration or Political Agendas?
In: Russian and East European Books and Manuscripts in the United States: Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Bakhmeteff Archive of Russian and East European History and Culture, ed. Tanya Chebotarev and Jared S. Ingersoll.
Slavic & East European Information Resources 4, no.4(2003) 107-39.

2001

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'Tsel' vyiavleniia zarubezhnoi arkhivnoi Rossiki: Politika ili kul'tura?' [Rationalizing the Retrieval of Archival Rossica / Sovietica Abroad: Politics or Culture?]
In: Zarubezhnaia arkhivnaia Rossika: Itogi i perspektivy vyiavleniia i vozrashcheniia. Materialy Mezhdunarodnoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii, 16-17 noiabria 2000 g., Moskva, ed. V. P. Kozlov and E. E. Novikova. Moscow, 2001 (Rosarkhiv, Rossiiskoe obshchestvo istorikov-arkhivistov).
   An English version is being updated for separate publication.

1997

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'Arkhivnaia Rossika / Sovetika: K opredeleniiu tipologii russkogo arkhivnogo naslediia za rubezhom' [Archival Rossica /Sovietica: towards a typology of the Russian archival legacy abroad]
In: Problemy zarubezhnoi arkhivnoi Rossiki: Sbornik statei, ed. V.P. Kozlov (Moscow: Russkii mir, 1997) 7-43.
   Variant edition in: Trudy Istoriko-arkhivnogo instituta 33 (Moscow, 1996) 262-286.
   Originally presented as a paper at a Rosarkhiv conference in Moscow, December 1993.

1994

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'Arkhivnaia Rossika za rubezhom: Mezhdunarodnye iuridicheskie problemy i arkheograficheskie usiliia' [Archival Rossica abroad: International legal problems and archeographic efforts]
In: Kul'turnoe nasledie Rossiiskoi emigratsii, 1917-1940, edited by E.P. Chelyshev and D.M. Shakhovskoi (Moscow: Nasledie, 1994; RAN), vol. 2 409-411.
   Conference version in: Mezhdunarodnaia nauchnaia konferentsiia 'Kul'turnoe nasledie Rossiiskoi emigratsii: 1917-1940-e gody.' Sbornik materialov, Moskva, 8-12 sentiabria 1993 g., compiled by A.V. Lupyrev and A.S. Fedotov; edited by E.P. Chelyshev and A.N. Sakharov (Moscow, 1993; RAN, 'Kongress sootechestvennikov') 148-151.

1993

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'Archival Rossica/ Sovetica Abroad - Provenance or Pertinence, Bibliographic and Descriptive Needs'
Cahiers du Monde Russe et Sovietique 34(1993)no. 3 431-480.
   A Russian version appears in Otechestvennye arkhivy (1993)no. 1. (See no.31)

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'Zarubezhnaia arkhivnaia Rossika i Sovetika. Problemy proiskhozhdeniia dokumentov i izkh otnoshenie k istorii Rossii (SSSR), potrebnost'v opisanii i bibliografii'
Otechestvennye arkhivy (1993)no. 1 20-53.
   An English version appears in Cahiers du Monde Russe et Soviétique (1993). (See no.30)


Forthcoming Studies (completed, nearing completion, and/or committed for publication)

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Archival Rossica Abroad - Rationalizing the Search and Retrieval of the Russian Archival Legacy.
   In preparation for Cahiers du Monde russe et soviétique, (and, or) Amsterdam: IISH, 'Research Paper'.

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