Restitution

Author : Kathy Kacer
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926920122

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Restitution by Kathy Kacer Pdf

Based on the true story of a Jewish family's fight to regain a symbol of their lost life, Restitution begins in Prague on the eve of the Nazi invasion. The Reesers know that they must flee Czechoslovakia, but first they deliver their valuable oil paintings into the hands of a Christian colleague for safekeeping. Led by their intrepid matriarch, Mari Reeser, the family make their escape under the nose of the Nazis, arriving in Canada just days before WWII begins. Despite a successful new life in Toronto, the Reesers never forgot what was left behind. When peace returned to Europe, Mari fought for the return of the paintings, only to be thwarted by the Communist regime. Hope sparked again in 1989 when Mari's son, Karl Reeser, received a letter saying the paintings were his if he could retrieve them. Finding all legal means closed to him, he traveled to Prague to make one last try. Here, fate intervened with an unlikely savior named Richard VandenBosch, an official at the Canadian Embassy. Together, he and Karl manage to retrieve the paintings and secrete them in the embassy. The final hurdle -- how to get the paintings to Canada? -- is solved by a resourceful art dealer and smuggler named Theofil Kral, whose honest desire to help the Reeser family restore a symbol of their vanished life sees the four paintings returned to them at last.

Author : Peter D. Maddaugh,John D. McCamus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0779886704

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The Law of Restitution by Peter D. Maddaugh,John D. McCamus Pdf

Author : Alexander Herman
Publisher : Hot Topics in the Art World
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1848225369

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Restitution by Alexander Herman Pdf

Debates about the restitution of cultural objects have been ongoing for many decades, but have acquired a new urgency recently with the intensification of scrutiny of European museum collections acquired in the colonial period. Alexander Herman's fascinating and accessible book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the restitution ......

Author : Clara Kramer,Stephen Glantz
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781551993683

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Clara's War by Clara Kramer,Stephen Glantz Pdf

“You lose your loved ones, and still you want to live.” On 21 July 1942, the Nazis reached the small Polish town of Zolkiew. Life for fifteen-year-old Clara Kramer would never be the same. While those around her were either slaughtered or transported, three families found perilous refuge in a hand-dug cellar. Hers was one of them. Living above and protecting them were the Becks. Mrs. Beck had been the families’ maid. Mr. Beck was alcoholic and a self-professed anti-Semite, yet he risked his life to keep his charges safe. But survival under his protection proved to be anything but predictable. Whether it was his nightly drinking sessions with officers of the SS in the room just above or his torrid affair with one of the hiding women, it seemed that Clara and the others often had as much to fear from Beck as they did from the war. Clara’s mother told her to keep a diary while they lived in the bunker in order to fill her time and “so the world would know what happened to us.” Over sixty years later, Clara Kramer has finally turned those diaries into a compelling and heartbreaking memoir — a story of love and memory and survival.

Author : Andrew S. Burrows
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 789 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199296521

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The Law of Restitution by Andrew S. Burrows Pdf

This highly-praised textbook provides detailed and incisive coverage of all aspects of restitution. The author's expert analysis and clarity of style will be invaluable to both students and practitioners with an interest in this area of law.

Author : Ward Farnsworth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226144337

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Restitution by Ward Farnsworth Pdf

Restitution is the body of law concerned with taking away gains that someone has wrongfully obtained. The operator of a Ponzi scheme takes money from his victims by fraud and then invests it in stocks that rise in value. Or a company pays a shareholder excessive dividends or pays them to the wrong person. Or a man poisons his grandfather and then collects under the grandfather’s will. In each of these cases, one party is unjustly enriched at the expense of another. And in all of them the law of restitution provides a way to undo the enrichment and transfer the defendant’s gains to a party with better rights to them. Tort law focuses on the harm, or costs, that one party wrongfully imposes on another. Restitution is the mirror image; it corrects gains that one party wrongfully receives at another’s expense. It is an important topic for every lawyer and for anyone else interested in how the legal system responds to injustice. In Restitution, Ward Farnsworth presents a guide to this body of law that is compact, lively, and insightful—the first treatment of its kind that the American law of restitution has received. The book explains restitution doctrines, remedies, and defenses with unprecedented clarity and illustrates them with vivid examples. Farnsworth demonstrates that the law of restitution is guided by a manageable and coherent set of principles that have remarkable versatility and power. Restitution makes a complex and important area of law accessible, understandable, and interesting to any reader.

Author : Graham Virgo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198726388

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The Principles of the Law of Restitution by Graham Virgo Pdf

Includes bibliographical references (pages 745-759) and index.

Author : Diane Chelsom Gossen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Classroom management
ISBN : 0944337376

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Restitution by Diane Chelsom Gossen Pdf

Help your staff learn how to lead students to fix their own mistakes, focus on self-discipline, and build self-esteem. Expands on the ideas in the book Restitution and provides activities to conduct your own staff-development program. Contains invaluable reproducible handouts. New and revised Second Edition now available!

Author : K.W. Clark
Publisher : K W Clark
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0974355801

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Restitution by K.W. Clark Pdf

Restitution takes its readers on a ride throughout the vast scenic physical splendour of America, while witnessing the destruction of the vast philosophical splendor of America. The suppressed and controversial music of Uriah Heep plays throughout this story of heart-wrenching love and dreams caught in a downward spiral to hopelessness ...but the individual's spirit will not give up against all odds. This individual will rebuild, only to have routine government bureaucracy take the dream away again ...a rogue is created. An incredible chase, smashing escapes, the absolute power of government on a manhunt that may never end ...the monster knows the road well. Ride on this journey exploring America and that vast world of the individual heart, mind, and soul; while learning the who, what, where, why, and how a rogue can be created by governments.

Author : Ḥanokh Dagan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521829046

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The Law and Ethics of Restitution by Ḥanokh Dagan Pdf

This 2004 book provides acomprehensive account of the American law of restitution.

Author : Dan Diner,Gotthart Wunberg
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1845452208

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Restitution and Memory by Dan Diner,Gotthart Wunberg Pdf

The myriad debates on restitution and memory, which have been going on in Europe for decades, indicate that World War II never ended. It is still very much with us, paradoxically re-invoked by the events of 1989/90 and the expansion of Europe to the east in the aftermath of the collapse of communism and economic globalization. The growing privatization and reprivatization in Eastern Europe revive pre-war memories that lay buried under the blanket of collectivization and nationalization of property after 1945. World War II did not only result in the death and destruction on a large scale but also in an a far-reaching revolution of existing property relations. This volume offers an assessment of the problematic of restitution and its close interconnection with the discourses of memory that have recently emerged.

Author : Peter Birks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Restitution
ISBN : 0198760744

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An Introduction to the Law of Restitution by Peter Birks Pdf

This new edition of a landmark study of the law of restitution has been substantially revised and updated. Concentrating on structural principles rather than detailed rules, the book is an invaluable guide to this difficult area of law.

Author : Irini A. Stamatoudi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857930309

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Cultural Property Law and Restitution by Irini A. Stamatoudi Pdf

This invaluable book, for the first time, brings together the international and European Union legal framework on cultural property law and the restitution of cultural property. Drawing on the author's extensive experience of international disputes, it provides a very comprehensive and useful commentary. Theories of cultural nationalism and cultural internationalism and their founding principles are explored. Irini Stamatoudi also draws on soft law sources, ethics, morality, public feeling and the role of international organisations to create a complete picture of the principles and trends emerging today.

Author : United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1845450825

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Robbery and Restitution by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Pdf

The robbery and restitution of Jewish property are two inextricably linked social processes. It is not possible to understand the lawsuits and international agreements on the restoration of Jewish property of the late 1990s without examining what was robbed and by whom. In this volume distinguished historians first outline the mechanisms and scope of the European-wide program of plunder and then assess the effectiveness and historical implications of post-war restitution efforts. Everywhere the solution of legal and material problems was intertwined with changing national myths about the war and conflicting interpretations of justice. Even those countries that pursued extensive restitution programs using rigorous legal means were unable to compensate or fully comprehend the scale of Jewish loss. Especially in Eastern Europe, it was not until the collapse of communism that the concept of restoring some Jewish property rights even became a viable option. Integrating the abundance of new research on the material effects of the Holocaust and its aftermath, this comparative perspective examines the developments in Germany, Poland, Italy, France, Belgium, Hungary and the Czech Republic.

Author : Dan Hicks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Bronzes
ISBN : 1786806843

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The Brutish Museums by Dan Hicks Pdf

Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all stolen. Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes - a collection of thousands of metal plaques and sculptures depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of Benin City, Nigeria. Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria, the British Museum and countless private collections. 0The story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. In The Brutish Museum, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects, as part of awider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.