<div><div>The German Jewish psychologist, Paul Plaut was born 19 February 1894 in Berlin to Hermann Plaut (1849-1909 Berlin) and Ernestine née Loewenthal (1864-1942 murdered in Theresienstadt). He had a brother who emigrated before the outbreak of the Second World War and two sisters murdered by the Nazis in 1943. He married Thekla Delphine Kneip (1899-1980) in 1923. They had one daughter, Claire Allen.</div><div><br ...

George Howard Tellier (1914-1988) was born in Des Moines, Iowa, to George and Mildred Tellier. He served in the US Army from 1942 to 1946. He received meteorology training at MIT and was assigned to the Romulus Air Field near Detroit. Following VE Day, he was initially reassigned to the Pacific Theater, but someone who knew of his dairy engineering training and experience had him transferred to Berlin ...

The Inspector of the uniformed Protectorate police in Moravia (Inspektor uniformované protektorátní policie na Moravě) was formed in 1942 as part of the reorganization of the administration of the Protectorate, when the Czech police and gendarmerie came under the direct command of the German authorities. I

Roger René François Pauwels was born in Brussels on 15 March 1924 as the youngest child of Charles Pauwels and Elise Vyvey. Roger had three older siblings: Jean (born in 1917), Alexandre (born in 1920) and Mariette (born in 1922). Roger became an office clerk and lived with his family at Rue Terre Neuve 181 in Brussels. In May 1944 the Sotramont company, specialising in assembly work, published a call ...

At the time of the Anschluss, Walter Nitsche was 20 years old and a student at the Höhere Staats-Gewerbeschule at Schellinggasse 13 in Vienna's 1st district. He graduated from school in June 1938 and shortly thereafter took up a job as a local construction supervisor at the "Road Administration of the Province of Lower Austria." At the end of November 1938, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht. Walter ...

"In the most crucial phase of the Second World War, German troops, fighting in regions as far apart as the Sahara and the Caucasus, confronted the Allies across lands largely populated by Muslims. Nazi officials saw Islam as a powerful force with the same enemies as Germany: the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Jews. Islam and Nazi Germany's War is the first comprehensive account of Berlin's ...

The collection consists of four photograph albums depicting the Föhrenwald and Windsheim displaced persons camps from 1945-1947. The albums depict refugees and staff, including Marion Pritchard and her husband Anton Pritchard, both of whom worked for United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in the DP camps after the war. Many of the photographs are annotated on the album pag ...

Animated map of the Caucasus region. The campaign in the Caucasus began in the summer of 1942, preceding Stalingrad. An airfield with a plane. Three men in flight suits study a map; one of them holds a dog. According to the narrator, they are preparing to fly a reconnaissance mission around the Terek river, looking for artillery emplacements. View of a plane from the ground, then the interior, with ...

Men in civilian clothing carry swastika and SS banners. These are Ukrainian volunteers for the Galician Division of the SS. Swastikas, religious blessing of units. The SS group - stills, published photos, and art work. Parade, men carrying large signs and banners with the symbol of the SS Galiciana unit. Railroad car with SS chalked on the side, close scene, men in the rail car. Translation of Ukrainian ...

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Anti-Nazi cartoon published in Palestine in the early 1940s, with a quote attributed to the book of Proverbs from the Hebrew Bible. The quote is erroneously attributed to Proverbs 21. verse 24 but it is actually Proverbs 21:23. Posters urging the public to be discrete about what information they reveal in conversations with strangers were common during World War II. Both the United States’ Security ...

Photographs depicting Ania Sadowski (born Ania Zilbiger, later Ania Drimer) and her parents Adolf Zilbiger (later Adam Sadowski) and Ernestine Berglas, originally of Krakow, Poland, in a labor camp in Kharitonov, Archangelsk district, Soviet Union, circa 1944, and in Kharkiv, Ukraine, circa 1944-circa 1947.

From the early 1930s, Spanish fascists were fascinated by the 'nice shine' of National Socialism. During the Civil War, the influence of Nazi Germany among Spanish fascists, traditionalists and supporters of the emerging Franci regime increased. As consequence of the pro-Nazi alignment of the Franco regime a Spanish division of volunteers was set up in early summer, 1941 to take part in the Russian ...

Estonian youths receive physical exams, peasants surrender their horses to German army and estonian youths get close order drill instruction. 2:22:49 CU Dr. Mie? National Director of Estonia. Men read posted recruitment notice. CU Men coming through door; pan down to man checking papers against list. Men at table entering names. 2:23:05 Doctor with stethescope checks barechested man. Man pointing to ...

Simone Lipman (1920-2011) was born Simone Margaret Weil in Ringendorf (Bas-Rhin) to Abraham and Jeanne Weil. She moved to Strasbourg at age three with her parents and her brother, Roger. In 1941, Lipman began relief work with the Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE) at the concentration camp at Rivesaltes. When Rivesaltes closed at the end of 1942, she began working at the Poulouzat children’s home near ...

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Josef Fǐsera was active in the Czech organization "Relief Committee for Republican Spain," which sent fully equipped hospitals with doctors and nurses to help those fighting against Franco during the Spanish Civil War. Fišera volunteered in Spain for several months and traveled about Czechoslovakia and other countries raising support for Republican Spain. After the 1938 Munich Pact, the Czech government ...

Shot of Caldas da Rainha (30 miles from Lisbon), residence for all refugees living in Portugal, many of whom were Jewish. VS of cattle fair. 02:45:32 Refugee works garden, woman spreads wash. EXT of Cafe Boccage, then packed INT [cafe is meant to replicate artists' cafe in Montparnasse, "La Rotonde"]. INT of Hotel Lisbonse where refugees meet to talk, play cards, sit on sofas, and chat. At 02:46:14 ...

"Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, Indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended. This deeply researched book is a comprehensive and chilling ...

In many respects they were an after-thought and a convenient reserve in the minds of those who ran the country and its armed forces at the outbreak of hostilities in both world conflicts. Because of the existing politics and prejudices they could not be used in a combatant capacity and were relegated to the more menial tasks and unimposing functions. Despite all this, they answered the call to duty ...

American war bond poster printed in 1945, featuring a clenched fist holding war bonds superimposed in front of the Statue of Liberty’s arm and torch. The symbolism of the image implies that purchasing war bonds was a way the public could support and protect American liberty, represented by the Statue of Liberty’s torch, which is also the lone light in the night sky. The United States Government offered ...

This collection contains information about David Diamant (David Erlich), a Communist who remained in Paris during World War II, took part in the Resistance, and after the war worked with the UJRE helping Jewish refugees from Poland. It includes documents concerning Jewish immigrants in the Communist Party; documents of Jewish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War; the final letters of Jewish resistance ...

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