Archive Thief

In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski gathered up tens of thousands of documents from Nazi buildings in Berlin, and later, public archives and private synagogues in France, and moved them all, illicitly, to New York.

In The Archive Thief, Lisa Moses Leff reconstructs Szajkowski''s story in all its ambiguity. Born into poverty in Russian Poland, Szajkowski first made h...