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53 N.Y.U. J. Int'l L. & Pol. 265 (2020-2021)
Searching for Justice after the Holocaust: Fulfilling the Terezin Declaration and Immovable Property Restitution

handle is hein.journals/nyuilp53 and id is 269 raw text is: BOOK ANNOTATIONS Searching for Justice After the Holocaust: Fulfilling the Terezin Decla- ration and Immovable Property Restitution. By Michael J. Bazyler, Kathryn Lee Boyd, Kristen L. Nelson, and Rajika L. Shah. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xlvi, 521. $105 (hardcover). REVIEWED BY CAMERON EWING Soon after coming to power in 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party implemented a series of far-reaching measures to persecute German Jews and dispossess them of their property. By the end of 1937, the total wealth of German Jews had fallen by forty to fifty percent. Over the course of World War II, legal and extralegal plundering of Jewish property intensified and expanded through Europe, resulting in the largest theft in his- tory. Existing law proved inadequate to help victims recover their stolen property after the Holocaust, and the subsequent decades saw international efforts to identify and implement policies to aid in restitution. Against the backdrop of myriad efforts with varying de- grees of success, states convened the 2009 Prague Holocaust Era Assets Conference and issued the Terezin Declaration, the basis of Searching for Justice After the Holocaust. Focusing in large part on immovable property,1 which has generally received less attention than other forms of restitution, the Terezin Dec- laration is a non-binding agreement to continue the work of righting economic wrongs committed against European Jews and other victims of persecution during the Holocaust. The Declaration was endorsed by forty-seven predominantly Euro- pean countries and accompanied by the 2010 Guidelines and Best Practices (endorsed by forty-three countries). It also prompted the establishment of the European Shoah Legacy Institute (ESLI) to track the forty-seven signatory states' pro- gress and continue advocating for the Terezin Declaration's principles. In furtherance of this mission, ESLI commissioned 1. The study focuses on three main categories of immovable real prop- erty restitution: private, communal, and heirless property. 265 Imaged with Permission of N.Y.U. Journal of International Law and Politics

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