Brief Amicus Curiae of B'Nai B'Rith International, Raoul Wallenberg Ctr. for Human Rights, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Amb. Stuart E. Eizenstat, et al. filed in Zuckerman/Leffman v. The Met

United States Court of Appeals For the Second Circuit, No. 18-0634-cv

37 Pages Posted: 21 Jun 2018

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Jennifer Anglim Kreder

Northern Kentucky University - Salmon P. Chase College of Law

Edward McGlynn Gaffney

Independent

Douglas W. Kmiec

Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law

Date Written: June 1, 2018

Abstract

American judges have not yet developed a record of fair resolution of claims seeking the return of "Flight Art," artworks Nazi persecutees were forced to sell to pay discriminatory taxes, including the infamous Flight Tax, to make use of precious, hard-to-obtain visas to flee the continent. Amici are esteemed historians of modern Germany, groups interested in the rights of Holocaust survivors, and former Special Representative of the President and Secretary of State on Holocaust Issues Stuart E. Eizenstat. Lead Counsel Professor Kreder and amici offer counsel to judges so they can understand that Jews on the run from the Third Reich selling their last assets to art dealers were not engaged in routine commercial transactions. They were victims of a hold up--albeit with a curious "receipt."

Amici: B'Nai B'Rith International, Raoul Wallenberg Ctr. for Human Rights, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Amb. Stuart E. Eizenstat, Omer Bartov, Michael Berenbaum, Richard Falk, Eugene Fisher, Rabbi Irving Greenberg, Peter Hayes, Marcia Sachs Littell, Hubert G. Locke, Wendy Lower, Bruce F. Pauley, Carol Rittner, John K. Roth, Lucille Roussin, William L. Shulman, Stephen Smith, and Alan Steinweis. Filed in Zuckerman in Re Estate of Leffman v. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, No. 18-0634-Cv (2d Cir.), in Support of Plaintiff-Appellant Zuckerman

Keywords: HEAR Act, Art, Nazi, Art Theft, World War II, Flight Art, Flight Tax, Holocaust, Looted Art, Second Circuit, 2d Circuit

JEL Classification: K10, K19, K39

Suggested Citation

Kreder, Jennifer Anglim and Gaffney, Edward McGlynn and Kmiec, Douglas W., Brief Amicus Curiae of B'Nai B'Rith International, Raoul Wallenberg Ctr. for Human Rights, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Amb. Stuart E. Eizenstat, et al. filed in Zuckerman/Leffman v. The Met (June 1, 2018). United States Court of Appeals For the Second Circuit, No. 18-0634-cv, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3188846

Jennifer Anglim Kreder (Contact Author)

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Edward McGlynn Gaffney

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Douglas W. Kmiec

Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law ( email )

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