Correspondence with the Bessarabian police police inspectorate about the communist activities of the county residents; the case against Shmerl Feinstein, Shlema Usmansky and others for illegally crossing the border between the USSR and Romania; the case of charging Khaim Katsap of communism; lists of employees of the prosecutor’s office; correspondence with the Bessarabian regional police inspectorate ...

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"The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. 'La Résistance française" was not simply a national effort to free the country from German occupation, but a national drama around which wider conflicts were played out. Part of a Europe-wide, anti-fascist struggle, it included Spanish republicans, Italian and even German anti-Nazis. A 'war within ...

"It is widely acknowledged that Congo became an East-West battlefield during the first half of the decade of the 1960s, yet the participation of Cuban exiles in the struggles is rarely noted. In this volume Villafaña details the contribution made by Cuban exiles to the preservation of democracy in Congo. When Congo was given its independence by Belgium in the 1960, most of its people believed their ...

Records from trials at the district court in Kielce, 1945‒1950, for crimes by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of the anti-Communist ...

Records from trials at the appellate court in Kielce, 1945‒1950, for crimes by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of the anti-Communist ...

Introduction to the special issue: disputed Holocaust memory in Poland / Larry Ray and Sławomir Kapralski. - The meaning of Auschwitz in Poland, 1945 to the present / Marek Kucia. - Global patterns, local interpretations : new Polish museums dedicated to the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust / Zofia Wóycicka. - Eulogy of a different kind : Letters to Henio and the unsettled memory of the Holocaust ...

Following the transnational turn within fascist studies, this paper examines the role German National Socialism and Italian Fascism played in the transformation of the Norwegian fascist party Nasjonal Samling in the years 1933-1936. It takes the rivalry of the two role models as the initial point and focusses on the reception of Italy and Germany in the party press of the Nasjonal Samling. The main ...

Argues that the identification of Jews with the Bolshevik Revolution and with terror was the cause of a new type of antisemitism, political rather than racist, in the 1920s-40s, and this had a realistic kernel. Although only a minority of Jews were drawn by antisemitic persecution to socialism and communism, there they formed a highly visible and disproportionate part of the leadership. Enumerates ...

Court investigative files for crimes committed by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of the anti-Communist Armia Krajowa, or ...

Records from trials at the District Court in Zamość, 1945‒1966, for crimes committed by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of ...

In the first postwar years, survivors, politicians, and scholars in the Soviet Zone of occupation could deal freely with the Holocaust. A period of silence followed during the years of "anti-Zionist" persecution. From 1953 onwards historians could again deal with the subject, but only in accordance with the directives of the SED (the Communist Party) and for its purposes. The basis from which it was ...

"How do families hold together when turbulent forces tear them apart? Silence and Sacrifice explores what happens to generations of kin who survived anti-imperial and civil wars in Vietnam, only to be confronted with postcolonial transitions to communism and market-friendly late socialism. In recounting vivid family experiences of conflict, love, and loss, Shohet revises canonical theories of sacrifice ...

The collection includes 1756 oral history interviews. Of these, about 90 relate to the Holocaust (55 to the Holocaust in northwestern Transylvania and 33 to the fate of deported Roma in Transnistria). The Institute of Oral History in Cluj Napoca has developed several oral history projects over the last 25 years, dealing with the following topics: holocaust in northwestern Transylvania, World War II, ...

Jack Goody's book explores the development of the discipline of social anthropology through its key practitioners and how far its concerns interacted with the political and ideological debate of the interwar years. It is a study of the different ideological and intellectual approaches adopted by the emerging subject of social anthropology and how far these views were incorporated into and defined by ...

Two modern cases of genocide and extermination began in Southeast Asia in the same year. Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, and Indonesian forces occupied East Timor from 1975 to 1999. This book examines the horrific consequences of Cambodian communist revolution and Indonesian anti-communist counterinsurgency. It also chronicles the two cases of indigenous resistance to ...

Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era, the sons and daughters of peasants, workers, scientists, physicians, and political leaders considered by the regime to be dangerous to the political order. Ten grown victims, who as children suffered banishment, starvation, disease, anti-Semitism, and trauma resulting from their parents' ...

"In the years following World War II, as the United States began to focus on the global containment of communism, few regions of the world were considered as much of a potential battleground as Southeast Asia. Robert McMahon contends that policymakers exaggerated the significance of the region within the global power balance, dangerously overextending the United States and resulting in the tragedy ...

Gaynor I. Jacobson (1912-1999) was born Israel Gaynor Jacobson in Buffalo and worked for numerous Jewish and aid organizations in Rochester before joining the American Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in 1944 as a country director in Italy, Greece, and Czechoslovakia. Over the next six years, he used his diplomatic skills to persuade various governments to take in survivors of the Holocaust. He was ...

The Edmund Schechter papers contain correspondence, reports, articles, press releases, clippings, and scrapbooks documenting Schechter’s work in New York, Luxembourg, and Germany, his membership and continued interest in Kadimah, and investigations into his loyalty made by Senator McCarthy’s subcommittee. Subject files document Schechter’s early writing and speaking career in New York on the topic ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

Access to the collection is severely restricted due to constant Russian shelling of Nikopol. The area is highly dangerous, with multiple damaged and destroyed buildings. Eyewitness account: "A week ago, a shell hit a two-story house near a bus stop, just 350 meters from me. Two people sought shelter in the basement—they survived but were severely injured by falling concrete fragments and the blast ...