L' Oreal Took My Home : The Secrets of a Theft

London England: Arcadia Books, 2006. Paperback. Foreword by Serge Klarsfield. Translated from the French by Peter Bush.This is the explosive true story of a legal case led by a lone woman against one of the largest multinationals in the world. 'L'Oreal took my home', Edith Rosenfelder was always saying. This claim affected her daughter Monica, who decided when she grew up she'd try to understand what lay behind it. it was the start of a true investigation leading to action in the French courts. Prior to 1937, Monica Waitzfelder's family lived in Germany. Being Jewish, they were forced to flee the country, abandoning all their possessions, and their property was looted in the say way as happened to many other European Jews, who were victims of persecution prior to the Holocaust. This is the story of how the Rosenfelder family never recovered their home, which was located in the centre of Karlsuhe, Germany. it was in a wonderful location in which the L'Oreal cosmetics firm opened its head office. It refused - and refuses - to recognise the legitimate owners. 197 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). 1st UK Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.