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13:40 President Cerdini opens the hearing; asks for the accused to present himself; Barbie refuses to appear 13:41 Cerdini asks a bailiff to summon Barbie 13:41 Another bailiff reads the list of witnesses set to appear; identifies those who are absent 13:44 Cerdini suspends the hearing until the bailiff returns from summoning Barbie at the jail 14:05 Cerdini resumes the hearing; the clerk reads the ...

Hersch Mozes Cohen was born in Antwerp, Belgium, on 14 June 1905 as the son of Mozes Cohen and Hilletje Pollak. Hersch was raised in the port city, but when, in 1914, the First World War broke out his family fled to the Netherlands, the country of birth of both Hersch’s parents. In June 1919 the Cohens returned to Antwerp and settled at Grammestraat 33. However, Hersch again lived in Amsterdam from ...

David Weissblum was born in Tarnow, Poland, on 30 October 1911. He became a furrier. On 5 July 1936 he married Giza alias Gitel Wachspress, who was born in Tarnow on 15 December 1916. In July 1939 David and Giza fled to Belgium where Giza had relatives. The couple settled at Guldenvliesstraat 18, awaiting their visa to emigrate. In January 1940, they moved to Rudolfstraat 64 where they still resided ...

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Calixte Vandevelde was born on 18 October 1922 in Hoeleden, today part of Kortenaken, Belgium, as the son of Frans Vandevelde and Pelagie Sacréas. His parents, who were farmers, built a large family. Calixte had ten siblings. He attended a local primary school until the age of fourteen and then started working for the Blavier construction company in Oreye. When Nazi-Germany invaded Belgium on 10 May ...

"Women across the globe are being dramatically affected by war as currently waged by the USA. But there has been little public space for dialogue about the complex relationship between feminism, women, and war. The editors of Feminism and War have brought together a diverse set of leading theorists and activists who examine the questions raised by ongoing American military initiatives, such as: a) ...

Cukunft (Youth Union "Future") began to operate on a larger scale in 1919. The first groups of young people describing themselves as "Little Bund" began to be created at the beginning of the 20th century in Belarus, Włocławek and Lublin. Ideologically and organisationally, Cukunft was formed in 1916. In the mid-1920s, it brought together over 3,000 members in 70 field organizations, and in the 1930s ...

Copyright Holder: Instytut Zachodni im. Zygmunta Wojciechowskiego

"Après la Première Guerre mondiale, les Allemands organisent une campagne de propagande internationale contre la présence de troupes coloniales françaises dans leur pays : c'est la « honte noire ». Elle repose sur des accusations mensongères de viols systématiques des femmes blanches par les soldats africains en Rhénanie occupée. Ces attaques racistes visent à convaincre l'opinion publique internationale ...

Vigdor Getsel (Victor) Hollander was born in Neu-Sandez, Austro-Hungarian empire, now Nowy Sacz in Poland, on 20 April 1887. He became a diamond trader and, in November 1909, emigrated to Belgium, where he settled in Antwerp. On 1st December 1909, he married Terez Eckstein, born in Moskolizi, Hungary, on 14 September 1888. Their oldest son, Mauritz Leo Hollander, was born in Antwerp on 16 December ...

In 1938 and 1939, Shaul and Yitzhak Goskind of Warsaw-based Sektor Films produced six short films about urban Jewish communities in Poland. One, about Łódź, is lost. The other five-on Bialystok, Cracow, Lwow, Vilna, and Warsaw-have survived and are now called "Five Cities." These low-budget 35mm films were made for Landsmanshaften groups in America for fundraising purposes. On the eve of war, the Goskinds ...

Mozes Isaak Sand was born in Jaworów, Poland, on 2 May 1923 as the son of Abraham Sand (b. 18/02/1894 in Jaworów, Poland) and Regina Flichtenfeld (b. 07/09/1895 in Jaworów, Poland). Mozes Isaak Sand had an older sister, Lea Sand, who was born in Jaworów, Poland, on 15 November 1921. In October 1927, father Abraham Sand made his way to Belgium via Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His wife and both children followed ...

Copyright Holder: Ms. Raya-Ginette Karsenty

Published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto revolt. Pt. 1 (pp. 7-111) contains an essay discussing the Nazis' policy of indirect annihilation (persecution, deprivation, and concentration in ghettos) and direct annihilation in the extermination camps. Focuses, as an example, on the conditions in the Warsaw ghetto, where 96,000 persons died of starvation and epidemics. Describes ...

Contains some 25,000 pages of more than 6,000 documents relating to the lives of the Jewish population living within the borders of occupied Poland from September 1939 to the end of February 1943. The collection contains questionnaires, reports, journals, diaries, memoirs, journal articles, literary works, letters, notices, copies of official correspondence, protocols of the deliberations of ghetto ...

Yehuda Bauer, an Israeli scholar, talks about how he first became involved in the study of the Holocaust and how he tries to strike a balance between emotional involvement and objectivity. He talks about the Jewish Council and Israeli attitudes to them after the war. Lanzmann and Bauer debate Kasztner's actions and motivations and the Nazi fantasy of the powerful "world Jewry". The interview was recorded ...

AAD VAN TEYLINGEN (NL)De broer van Aad van Teylingen werkte bij de brandweer. Toen de razzia plaatsvond, wilde Aads broer zijn spullen in de kazerne halen om vervolgens onder te duiken met Aad en zijn vriend Gerrit. Bij de brandweerkazerne aangekomen mocht de broer niet meer weg. Aad is met Gerrit aangehouden op straat en in een school opgesloten, waar ze ook Aads broer weer tegenkwamen. Gedrieën besloten ...

This collection contains photos of the Rajter family, including: passport photos and wedding photos of Estera Rajter and Abram Ciechanow, photos of Estera Rajter and Abram Ciechanow with their son Willy Rajter (Ciechanow), a photo of Willy Rajter (Marks) and his mother Gitla Rajter, and wartime photos of Willy Rajter while housed at the Baron de Castro children’s home led by the Association of Jews ...

The Peter Rosen papers contain training materials from the Military Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie; drafts, correspondence, and research created during the production of a 1945 handbook titled The German Police prepared by MIRS (London Branch) and SHAEF’s Evaluation and Dissemination Section (EDS); two Gestapo files; and a Sicherheitsdienst (SD) file. Camp Ritchie training materials include ...

The Federation of Jewish Societies of France (FSJF) was founded in Paris between 1923 and 1926 with the aim of bringing together dozens of immigrant Jewish societies. From the 1930s onwards, the FSJF was recognized as the main representative of Jews who had immigrated to France. Included among its leaders were Israel Jefroykin, Marc Jarblum, Claude Kelman, Judah Jacoubovitch and Reuven Grinberg. The ...

Contains dossiers of cases of Poles, Jews, Germans, Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans), and other nationals who were either arrested or under surveillance for 1) membership in resistance movements (Organization of Armed Struggle, Home Army, Polish Fighting Resistance, Secret Insurgents' Army, The Peoples' Army and Guard, Polish Workers' Party, Peasants' Battalions, National Military Organization, National ...