What happened to 60,000 Jewish books looted by the Nazis?

On BBC World Service’s Weekend programme, Kinga Bloch spoke about the Library of Lost Books – a project by the Leo Baeck Institutes in London and Jerusalem to trace the fate of books taken from the Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin after its closure in 1942.

Rather than destroy Jewish libraries, the Nazis used them for their own ideological research. Today, volunteers worldwide are helping to map where these books ended up and to recover their stories.

🎧 Listen here (from 44:35): https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172zw87qd6f3w5