Report by Louise Taylor, on the basis of interviews conducted in Sierra Leone. 75 pages : 1 illustration ; 28 cm.

C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now, to honor his long and truly distinguished career, Oxford is pleased to publish this special commemorative edition of Woodward's most influential work, The Strange Career of Jim Crow. ...

Pp. vii-xxiv contain a new introduction by the author. This was the first book to deal with the British policy of arrest and internment of thousands of refugees from Germany and Austria - most of them Jews - in the summer of 1940. Internees were sent to camps in Britain, or to Canada and Australia. Points out that Nazis, Jews, and anti-Nazi Gentiles were interned together. Quotes official reports and ...

The massacre of 1 million Rwandan Tutsis by ethnic Hutus in 1994 has become a symbol of the international community's helplessness in the face of human rights atrocities. This work reveals that France was secretly providing diplomatic support to the genocidaires. Includes bibliographical references and index. xiii, 242 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Gross violations of International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Laws have been committed in Syria. After a full cessation of violence, launching transitional justice processes will signal to the victims that those responsible for committing these crimes will be brought to reparation and that the time of impunity is over. This book discusses the available options of justice and how ...

This collection contains "the 4 July 1941 announcement by S. Žakevičius, chairperson of the Lithuanian citizens' committee of the city of Vilnius and regions concerning the obligation to wear special badges, the introduction of a ban for Jews to leave home after a definite hour and other documents restricting Jews' civil rights" (Galina Žirikova, Lietuvos centrinio valstybės archyvo fondai: holokausto ...

Contains selection of various civil cases related to divorce, invalidation of marriage, indemnity and disability pension, eviction, rent, declaring a person deceased, rectification of registry act, granting rights for the poor, and the like. The files contain the petitions and verdicts of the court, and, in the cases concerning divorce, a certificate of rabbinate and a notary’s certificate in cases ...

Since mid-2005 hundreds of civilians have been killed, more thant 10,000 houses burned, and approximately 212,000 persons have fled their homes in terror to live in desperate conditions deep in the bush in northern Central African Republic (CAR). This report, based on research carried out in CAR in early 2007, describes the conflict between the CAR authorities and the two major rebel groups opereating ...

Files of civil cases brought by Jews, inhabitants of the town of Busko Zdrój, in various cases such as: eviction, division of property or inheritance, statement of rights to property or inheritance, rectification of personal data, statement of death, recognition as dead. In addition, a small number of criminal cases against Jews from the 1930s.

There were major guidelines in the application of Greek transitional justice in 1974-5. Trials connected with politics had often taken place in Greece in 1922, 1935 and during the civil war in the 1940s. Justice had often been instrumentalised during previous internal conflicts, mortgaging both the interwar republic and the post-war democracy. The 1974-5 transition followed a different path. According ...

Human suffering on a large scale is a continuing threat to world peace. Several dozen gruesome civil wars disturb global order and jar our collective conscience each year. The 50 million people displaced by current complex humanitarian emergencies overwhelm the ability of the post-Cold War world to understand and cope with genocide, ethnic cleansing, massacres, and other inhumane acts. Greater public ...

Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow. A guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive, ed. by D. E. Fishman, M. Kupovetsky, V. Kuzelenkov, Scranton - London 2010.

"On November 4-5, 2008, an estimated 150 people were killed in the town of Kiwanja in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, half a mile away from United Nations peacekeeping forces. The event marks one of the worst killing sprees in North Kivu in the past two years. Most of those killed were summarily executed by forces of rebel commander Laurent Nikunda's National Congress for the Defense of People ...

Dismisses the theory of an "eternal antisemitism", as well as the conception of antisemitism as a failure of Jewish emancipation. Critical theory of the 19th-21st centuries came close to explaining the emergence of antisemitism in the modern period, positing that it was the political emancipation itself which had caused it. Examines and criticizes the views on this point held by critical theorists: ...

"During the 1994 Rwandan genocide, women were subjected to sexual violence on a massive scale. These crimes were perpetrated by members of the infamous Hutu militia groups known as the Interahamwe, other civilians, and soldier of the Rwandan Armed Forces. Administrative, military and political leaders as well as heads of militia, directed or permitted the killings and sexual violence in an effort to ...

War in African literature: literary harvests, human tragedies / Ernest N. Emenyonu. - The muted index of war in African literature & society / Chimalum Nwankwo. - 'Life in the camp of the enemy': Alemseged Tesfai's theatre of war / Christine Matzke. - Sacrifice & contestation of identity in Chukwuemeka Ike's Sunset at Dawn / Clement A. Okafor. - Of war & madness: a symbolic transmutation of the Nigeria-Biafra ...

From the birth of the United States, African American men and women have fought and died in defense of a nation that has often denied them many fundamental rights of citizenship. Now Gerald Astor has chronicled their efforts and accomplishments in this critically acclaimed survey. From Crispus Attucks, the first casualty of the American Revolution, to fighters on both sides of the Civil War, Astor ...

The author describes Rwanda's history with clarity and narrates the killings based on testimony from survivors. These include a Tutsi doctor who has seen much of her family killed over decades of Tutsi oppression, a Schindleresque hotel manager who hid hundreds of refugees from certain death, and a Rwandan bishop who has been accused of supporting the slaughter of Tutsi schoolchildren. Originally published: ...

"The concept of UN peacekeeping has had to evolve and change to meet the challenges of contemporary sources of conflict. From a practical, operational and legal perspective, Murphy examines the problems faced by UN peacekeeping operations. Three case studies (Lebanon, Somalia and Kosovo) are used to demonstrate the problems associated with the command and control of UN forces, the use of force and ...

The books of this collection cannot be loaned, but they can be read on site. Some of the books have been digitized and can be read online. The postcards are under digitization process and cannot be loaned.

"The international community created the Special Court for Sierra Leone to prosecute those who bore the greatest responsibility for crimes committed during the country's devastating civil war. Tim Kelsall examines some of the challenges posed by the fact that the Court operated in a largely unfamiliar culture, in which the way local people thought about rights, agency and truth-telling sometimes differed ...

Giorgio Perlasca (1910-1992) was born on Jan. 31, 1910, in Italy, the son of an Italian government official in Padua. He fought for some time in the Spanish Civil War and later took a position in an Italian trade firm. He later worked in other cities in Eastern Europe after Italy entered World War II in 1940. He maintained an official position with the Italian Trade Commission, living in Belgrade, ...

The Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the bequest of Hermann Weinkauff from his granddaughter in June 2023. Hermann Weinkauff (1894-1981) was born in Trippstadt in Rhenish Palatinate on February 10, 1984. Until his Abitur in 1912, he attended the classical language high school in Speyer. He then studied law in Munich, Heidelberg and Würzburg. In Munich, he became a member of the fraternity Corps Hubertia ...

"In Paper Cadavers, an inside account of the astonishing discovery and rescue of Guatemala's secret police archives, Kirsten Weld probes the politics of memory, the wages of the Cold War, and the stakes of historical knowledge production. After Guatemala's bloody thirty-six years of civil war (1960-1996), silence and impunity reigned. That is, until 2005, when human rights investigators stumbled on ...