{{short description|American lawyer}}
{{Infobox person | name = Curt C. Silberman | image = Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F024217-0003, Bonn, Dehler empfängt Prof. Silberman.jpg | alt = | caption = Thomas Dehler and Curt Silberman in 1967 | birth_name = Kurt Leo Silbermann | birth_date = {{Birth date|1908|5|23|mf=y}} | birth_place = Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany | death_date = {{Death date and age|2002|9|9|1908|5|23|mf=y}} | death_place = Livingston, New Jersey | other_names = | occupation = Lawyer | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}
'''Curt C. Silberman''' (May 23, 1908 – September 9, 2002) was a German-Jewish and American attorney, community leader, and member of Jewish organizations in both Germany and the United States. Born Kurt Leo Silbermann in Würzburg, Germany,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.historisches-unterfranken.uni-wuerzburg.de/test/web324w/juf/detailsinclude.php?global=;search;30521 | title=Silberman, Curt Charles geb. Silbermann Kurt Leo | publisher=Johanna-Stahl-Zentrum | work=Biographische Datenbank Jüdisches Unterfranken | accessdate=30 November 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208133453/http://www.historisches-unterfranken.uni-wuerzburg.de/test/web324w/juf/detailsinclude.php?global=;search;30521 | archive-date=8 December 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref> he and his wife Else fled due to the rampant antisemitism in Nazi Germany and settled in New Jersey. His legal career in the United States focused on restitution work for the victims of the Nazi government.<ref>{{cite news|title=Paid Notice: Deaths SILBERMAN, DR. CURT C.|work=The New York Times|page=12|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/11/classified/paid-notice-deaths-silberman-dr-curt-c.html}}</ref>
Silberman was active in many Jewish organizations. He was a co-founder of the Leo Baeck Institute, and for a period of time, the head of American Federation of Jews from Central Europe<ref name="Lederhendler2001">{{cite book|author=Eli Lederhendler|title=New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity: 1950-1970|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fnyZTkYB0R0C&pg=PA183 |accessdate=30 August 2013|year=2001|publisher=Syracuse University Press|isbn=978-0-8156-0711-3|page=183}}</ref> and a member of the Executive Committee of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.<ref>"[http://www.ushmm.org/research/competitive-academic-programs/faculty-seminars/silberman-seminar/silberman Curt C. Silberman]." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 2015-11-13.</ref>
==External links== {{Commons category}} *[http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=430973 Guide to the Curt C. Silberman Collection] at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York *[http://access.cjh.org/1332002 Oral history interview with Curt Silberman]
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