The collection contains lists of prisoners in the Miranda de Ebro Camp; 1940-1947 Miranda was the central camp in Spain for foreign prisoners. This camp was used for several kinds of prisoners. The three main categories were: international brigadiers (captured during the Civil War); male prisoners who illegally crossed the border (women were not held in military camps, but provincial prisons); and ...

"Using 16 personal interviews, government documents from Germany and the US, the author explores the experience of American POWs who were held in German concentration, death and slave labor camps. The work provides detailed accounts that document the presence of American POWs in these camps, and explores the reasons why the US government systematically suppressed information about them. It affirms ...

During the Second World War the Japanese were stereotyped in the European and American imagination as fanatical, cruel and almost inhuman. This view is unhistorical and simplistic. It fails to recognise that the Japanese were acting at a time of supreme national crisis and it fails to take account of their own historical tradition. The essays in Japanese Prisoners of War, by both Western and Japanese ...

The collection Kriegsgefangene consists of several war-time prisoner lists of which two lists were reproduced by the USHMM: 1. Stammlager XVII B Gneixendorf/Sterbebuch/AdR/DWM/08 ("Gfg. Lgr. Gneixendorf, Totenbuch 2.8.43-26.4.45"). This list contains prisoners of war of various nationalities, including Americans, who died in the POW camp Gneixendorf between August 2, 1943 and April 26, 1945. The list ...

Copyright Holder: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma

View on the territory of the camp, buildings, barracks, ditches-graves of Soviet prisoners of war, cemetery of Russian prisoners of war - participants of First World War; gas chambers, cemetery of English prisoners of war; corpses of Soviet prisoners of war. Work on the camp territory of Soviet-Polish commission for investigations of German crimes.

"Two tropes circulating in discussions of the types of architecture that were purpose-built for confinement are the carceral archipelago and the panopticon prison, both used in scholarship on disciplinary institutions in ways useful for our focus. They have not yet been used for discussions of Pacific War incarceration environments. For this volume, a wide arc of the Pacific geography interpreted through ...

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x, 132 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

As World War II drew to a close, hundreds of thousands of British and American prisoners of war, held in camps in Nazi-occupied Europe, faced the prospect that they would never get home alive. This text is told through the testimony of those heroic men. Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-462) and index. xxiii, 471 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm

Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 746 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, facsimiles, map, plans ; 23 cm

"When the Dutch Army surrenders to Japan in 1942, nine-year-old Sofia is imprisoned with her mother, younger brother, and two baby sisters in different concentration camps on Sumatra, Indonesia. Her father is sent to work on the Burma-Siam railroad, and the family doesn't know if he is dead or alive ... [This book] tells of Sofia's tolls through those years, taking care of her younger siblings and ...

Illustrations of the life of German prisoners at Donington Hall, Alexandra Palace, Dorchester, Handforth, Lofthouse Park and Eastcote. Illustrations of the life of German prisoners at Donington hall, Alexandra palace and other prison camps. 62 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

(LIB 6780) Displaced Russians, Ohrdruf, Germany, May 22, 1945. MSs, CUs, Russian soldiers, using US 2 1/2 ton trucks, transport Russian DPs from camp. CUs, individuals with bundles board trucks. LS, huge crowd waiting for transportation. (LIB 6781) Release of Prisoners of War, Plauen, Germany, May 21, 1945. MSs, German prisoners in front of administration building. Seq: Camera follows the complete ...

Attempt at Danube Crossing, Near Neustadt, Germany, April 27, 1945. Seq: Soldiers of 2nd Br. 395th regt, 99th Inf Div, rest behind dike. LSs, MSs, CU, troops carrying assault boats make their way unopposed through forest. MSs, troops pinned down beside assault boats in woods. VS, crew fires mortar in wooded area. LS, medics carry wounded soldier on litter. MSs, MCU, soldier hurriedly digs foxhole beside ...

(LIB 5406) Seventh Army POW Cage, Worms, Germany, April 7, 1945. AVs city of Worms, showing damaged town below. AVs, showing undamaged Catholic cathedral and Lutheran church in Worms. AVs, prisoners of war in caged area. LSs, MSs, HSs POW enclosure holding 2400 prisoners. MS, prisoners arriving and getting out of trucks. Individual CUs, various types of prisoners.

"Limited to 400 copies."--Page 5. 142 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Prisoners of the Sumatra Railway is about the experiences of British former prisoners of war (POWs) who were forced to construct a railway across Sumatra during the Japanese occupation. It is also a study to be undertaken of the life-writing of POWs held captive by the Japanese during the Second World War, and the transgenerational responses in Britain to this period of captivity. Met index, literatuuropgave. ...

Memoirs of a non-Jewish Viennese, married to a "Reich German". As a member of the Austrian Social-Democratic Party, she helped Jews to escape to Switzerland, was arrested and sent first to Dachau and then to Auschwitz. Speaks much of Jews in the camps. Ch. 7 (pp. 87-128), "The Prisoners" compares, inter alia, Jewish prisoners to those of other ethnic groups (Germans, Poles, Russians, etc.). xiii, 195 ...

(LIB 6780) Displaced Russians, Ohrdruf, Germany, May 22, 1945. MSs, CUs, Russian soldiers, using US 2 1/2 ton trucks, transport Russian DPs from camp. CUs, individuals with bundles board trucks. LS, huge crowd waiting for transportation. (LIB 6781) Release of Prisoners of War, Plauen, Germany, May 21, 1945. MSs, German prisoners in front of administration building. Seq: Camera follows the complete ...

Copyright Holder: Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie

Includes bibliographical references and index. xviii, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Wyd. 1. 67 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

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