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- W41329216 abstract "Dutch Reviews Renewed Holocaust-Assets Restitution De Romantische Boekhouder (The Romantic Bookkeeper), by Gerrit ZaIm, Uitgeverij Balans, 2009, 402 pp. [Dutch] Reviewed by Manfred Gerstenfeld Unless there were a compelling reason to do so, one would not usually review a book that devotes only 6 of its 400 pages to a Jewish subject. In this case, memoirs of liberal politician Gerrit ZaIm, longestserving Dutch finance minister (1994-2002 and 2003-2007) and deputy prime minister (2003-2007), contain disclosures of historical importance. This book concludes with a short section titled Minister for Jewish Affairs (390-396). The main issue ZaIm raises here is renewed restitution discussions with Dutch Jewish community at end of last century. This process constitutes a most important chapter in history of postwar Dutch Jewry. During World War II Germans plundered most Dutch Jewish possessions, using Lippmann Rosenthal Sarphatistraat bank (LIRO) as an agency that they fashioned especially for this purpose. At end of postwar liquidation of assets of this institution, some minor items - mainly jewelry and costly personal accessories - remained in possession of an agency of Finance Ministry. ZaIm tells how shocked he was when he learned from a television report that, in early 1960s, employees of this body had held a raffle to decide who could buy which item on basis of an assessed taxation value of many years earlier. Because this took place at ministry for which he was responsible, and even though it occurred long before his term as minister, ZaIm considered resigning. Senior ministry officials convinced him that this would be an overreaction. The late Dutch Jewish historian Isaac Lipschits noted that, after a discussion of LIRO affair, ZaIm met him in parliament building. He said he wanted to present his personal apologies. Lipschits remarked, But Minister, when this happened you were still going around in short trousers. ZaIm replied: I am a successor of postwar finance minister Pieter Lieftinck and thus responsible for what happened then.1 Lieftinck, a neophyte socialist, was first postwar finance minister (1945-1952). His major aim was to hasten economic revival of Dutch economy, which had been hard hit by war. In this frame of mind, he favored interests of Amsterdam security traders, who had collaborated with German occupiers at expense of Jews whose possessions had been looted. One of commissions of inquiry before turn of century investigated postwar restitution details and condemns his behavior in this matter.2 ZaIm also tells how apprehensive he was before his first meeting at ministry with representatives of CJO, Dutch Jewish umbrella organization for external affairs, as in his view the Finance Ministry is in dock of accused. To his relief CJO chairman, Henri Markens, opened by telling a joke. …" @default.
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