Patricia Kennedy Grimsted tells the tale of large collections of books confiscated by the Nazis from individuals and institutions during the 1930s and early 1940s and secreted away in storage facilities around the Third Reich. Grimsted discussed the logistical and legal issues involved in repatriating the confiscated books to the heirs of their original owners. Speaker Biography: Patricia Kennedy Grimsted is senior research associate at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. She is also affiliated with the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam. Grimsted is the author of numerous books and articles on Russian and Soviet archives and the founder of ArcheoBiblioBase, an online guide to Russian archives. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7343

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