"The research for stolen assets remaining in Hitler’s Germany lead some survivors of famous German Jewish families to write historic and moving works which mix at the same time judicial investigations and human epics – that's the case for Dina Gold's “Stolen Legacy”. Her property becomes in a way the reader's property and we follow with a great interest and intensity her efforts to recuperate not only a material legacy but the entire history of her family.

-Serge Klarsfeld, (French) Lawyer and Nazi hunter

The Holocaust—the project of exterminating Europe’s Jews--was an immense act of murder. It was also an immense act of theft. The murder was, of course, the incomparably greater crime. The dead could never be brought back to life. The ash from crematoria was dumped into rivers or spread across fields; the bodies shot into ravines decomposed in Europe’s mutilated earth. Yet the stolen property—of those who were murdered and the minority who escaped or otherwise survived—was seized and passed on, first by the Nazis and then by the governments that followed, to new possessors, public and private. Some pretended to own that property; most knew its real origins; few were willing to part with it. This is the story of a single such property that, by indefatigable effort, was reclaimed, at least partly, two generations later. It’s the story of the theft. But it’s also, by inference, a small part of the story of the murder. And it’s the story of a rare act of belated and incomplete, but symbolically resonant, historical justice.

-Walter Reich, Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior, and former Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

"An exceptional adventure in Holocaust literature. Dina Gold combines investigative journalism with a keen sense of history to uncover a story everyone should read."

-Marvin Kalb, a Harvard professor emeritus, now senior adviser to Pulitzer Center, former network correspondent.

German Jewish families, not necessarily the very richest, were among the leading art collectors in the country. After 1933 almost all these collections were taken over, or, not to mince words, stolen. Some were acquired by Nazi leaders such as Goering, others went to museums, yet others to private hands, and some were hidden or destroyed as "degenerate art" Dina Gold tells the fascinating story of the uphill attempts of one such family--her own-to regain what had been stolen. It is an amazing story but the reader is well advised to remember that it is by no means unique.in some cases justice has been done, in others imperfect justice, and in others yet no justice at all.

-Walter LAQUEUR, the leading historian is the author of among many other words Weimar, a cutural history.

Dina Gold has written a crisp, page-turning nonfiction whodunit, and proves herself to be an unyielding sleuth in the pursuit of justice for her family. At the same time, it is meticulously researched journalism that provides a fresh perspective on history.

-Nadine Epstein