Copyright Holder: United Nations Archives and Records Management Section

Consists of one memoir, in Hebrew, written by Emanuel Ascarelli (1919-1999), originally of Bologna, Italy. In the memoir, Emanuel describes his family history and his experiences in the Jewish Brigade.

Records were created by Chetnik military units and authorities in Herzegovina from 1941 to 1945. Chetnik groups were involved in civil war against Communist Partisans and acted as collaborators of German and Italian forces. Includes reports and orders of Chetnik HQ for eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, military action information, arrests, reports about political situation in Herzegovina, status of Chetnik ...

Correspondence (8 letters) from Gemma Vitale Servadio, written to friends, family and an attorney, June 1944. Servadio sent these letters from the Fossoli internment camp, after she and her mother, Nina Levi Vitale, were arrested, and prior to their deportation to Auschwitz. Collection also contains the text of a lecture given by Servadio’s brother, Col. Massimo Adolfo Vitale, in 1947, after he observed ...

Documentation created by the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia and Ustasha and domobran (militia) military units in the period 1941-1945. Contains reports of Ministries of the Independent State of Croatia regarding political and military circumstances, reports of Italian military missions and their deployment, details about policies and orders, conflicts with Chetnik forces, reports of ...

The papers consist of five photographs of Miroslav (Fred) Schiller, his friends, and fellow members of a jazz band; identification cards; visas; applications; and a bill passed by the United States House of Representatives for the relief of Fred Schiller.

The collection is thematically focused on socially critical and committed art created between the two world wars. The central part of the collection consists of works of art created during the Second World War: Partisan prints, drawings, paintings, sketches, etc. by camp inmates from mainly Italian, but also German concentration camps, prisoner-of-war camps and the prisons of the occupying forces. ...

Miroslav (Fred) Schiller was born on Jan. 3, 1910 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia). He became a jazz musician and traveled throughout Europe and the Mediterranean. He returned to Zagreb to witness the beginnings of the Nazi rise to power. Shortly after, he fled to Split, Yugoslavia (now Croatia) which was in the Italian zone of occupation. Because they were in danger of deportation, his parents ...

Copyright Holder: Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine

(Publisher-supplied data) Based upon extensive archival material, this is a pioneering study of the impact of the famine that occurred in Greece during its occupation by German, Italian and Bulgarian forces in 1941 and 1942. Violetta Hionidou examines the politics of the food crisis, focusing on the famine's demographics and the effectiveness of relief operations. Her interdisciplinary approach combines ...

Wie sahen deutsche und italienische Soldaten den Krieg, das Töten, ihre Gegner, ihre Verbündeten, ihre Führung, die Judenvernichtung? Ein internationales Forscherteam ist diesen Fragen erstmals auf Grundlage von mehr als 150.000 Seiten Abhörprotokollen nachgegangen, die britische und amerikanische Nachrichtendienste während des Zweiten Weltkriegs erstellt haben eine einzigartige Sicht auf die ...

Bestandsbeschreibung Behördengeschichte Im Zuge des Friedensvertrages der Konfliktparteien des Bosnienkrieges am 21.11.1995 (Dayton Abkommen) stimmten die Konfliktparteien der Entsendung einer multinationalen Truppe unter NATO-Kommando, der IFOR (Implementation Force), zu. Diese sollte die Einhaltung der im Friedensvertrag aufgeführten Übereinkünfte überwachen. Aufgabe der IFOR-Truppen waren die Entmilitarisierung ...

Documents, datebooks, correspondence, V-mails, photograph albums, loose photos, maps, scrip, souvenir materials (including a "Heidelberg" letter opener), notebooks, reparations and restitution papers related to Irving Gluck and his family; also includes a wooden box made by a German POW who he was guarding; Irving Gluck's embroidered tefillin pouch and pair of tefillin, a scroll of Esther, dog tags, ...

Castle Films was started in 1924 by Eugene W. Castle, the former Pacific Coast film editor at Fox Movietone News. Castle became a successful producer of industrial and advertising short subjects. Castle began compiling shorts, travelogues and newsreels for use in schools. The lure of the home movie market proved lucrative for Castle. In 1936, they became one of the first home movie companies to actually ...

Pp. 364-368, "Die 'Entjudung' Griechenlands", describe difficulties met by the German occupying forces in their attempt to incite the Greek population against the Jews. In the Italian zone, no antisemitic laws were enforced. In other parts of Greece, the fascist E.E.E. party (the National Union of Greece) was suppressed by the dictator Ioannis Metaxas. However, after 1942 many Jews were dispatched ...

Consists of documents, photographs, and two photograph album from the collection of Louis Pechi, born Ljubomir Peçi in 1934, in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia). Includes photographs of pre-war Yugoslavia, documents related to the family's escape and life in wartime Italy, and post-war photographs, correspondence, and documentation. Also includes photographs and documents related to family members ...

The rise of fascism in the twenties has been a determining factor in the events that have since taken place in Europe and which have led to the Second World War. In 1919 a nationalistic movement developed which called itself fascist, a movement which turned against the labour movement in industries and the farmers' movement in Northern Italy with force. Fascism was able to blossom and come to power ...

"From the invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 through to the waning months of the Second World War in 1945, Fascist Italy was at war. This Fascist decade of war comprised an uninterrupted stretch of military and political engagements in which Italian military forces were involved in Abyssinia, Spain, Albania, France, Greece, the Soviet Union, North Africa and the Middle East. As a junior partner to Nazi Germany, ...

This article unravels the complexities revealed in the act of traveling to and photographing Fascist Italy in order to consider the intricacies of a particularly German-Jewish engagement with contested and highly politicized spaces and scenes. It examines four specific images in the album: namely, one photo from South Tyrol/Alto Adige along with the three images from a Fascist night-time rally in Venice. ...

In 1941 Fascist Italy established the so-called Centers for the Study of the Jewish Problem in an effort to develop an Italian variant of 'spiritual racism' as a fitting counterpart to Nazi racial doctrine. The most active of the Centers was located in Trieste, home to one of Italy's largest Jewish communities. The Institute's close ties with the German consulate and SS contingent played a crucial ...

The collection comprises two separate deposits from the family Löwenstein in 1988. The first (643/1/1) consists of correspondence between Heinz Werner Löwenstein and his parents, 1935-1940. The letters provide an interesting account of the difficulties encountered by a young immigrant trying to make his way in South Africa as well as of the life led by Jewish people in pre-war Berlin. For obvious reasons ...

"The resistance in Western Europe has long been considered a national phenomenon that provided a significant contribution, both politically and militarily, to Nazi defeat in World War II. But the so-called "army of shadows" could never have risen without the support of London, first, and then of Washington. National factors thus played a preeminent part in the birth of the Resistance, while the British ...

"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 ...

Anti-Semitic, anti-American Nazi propaganda poster issued in German occupied Italy ca. 1943, with a cartoon of a Jewish Bolshevik shaking his fists at all comers. The threat of the Jewish Bolshevik or Judeo-Communist conspiracy was a cornerstone of Nazi Party ideology. The 1917 Communist revolution that brought down the Russian Empire shocked the world. The prominence of Jews in the Bolshevik leadership ...