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This paper explores an episode of state led extreme mass violence in Zimbabwe, commonly referred to as Gukurahundi, with a specific focus on the second phase of the campaign in Matabeleland South in early 1984. During this phase, the state targeted both the political structure of the main political opposition party of ZAPU, as well as the minority Ndebele ethnic group from which ZAPU drew much of its ...

Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, who had run a Jewish orphanage before the war, was appointed 'Elder of the Jews' by the Nazis in 1939. He turned the ghetto into a hive of industry in the vain hope of securing the survival of most of its inhabitants by making them economically too valuable to the German war effort to be murdered. To achieve this aim, he agreed to the introduction and enforcement of ...

Boris Gurevich was born to Yaakov and Maria (Musia) Gurevich in Riga, Latvia. He was the youngest of three children with an older brother, Samuel (Musik) and an older sister, Lea (Lilia). Together, they attended a Jewish school until the outbreak of World War II, when Boris joined the Red Army. He attended an artillery school on a site called “Stalinskie Lageria” or Stalin Camps before continuing his ...

Contains a letter written by a prominent Admor near the end of WWII; a notation on the back of the letter states (in translation) "Erev Shabbos Kodesh, Vayakhel, in the morning 8:00, Tel Aviv." The author describes the deaths of his forefathers, family members, and friends, and his troubles during the Holocaust including the many attempts on his life and times he was saved from certain death. The back ...

M.52.DAHmO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Khmelnitskiy Region
 
 History of the Archives:
 
 The Archives Authority was established in the Kamyanets Podilsk district in April 1922. Afterwards the Archives Authority became the Archives Authority of the Kamyanets Podilsk subdivision in 1925, and it became the local Archives Authority of Kamyanets Podilsk in 1932. The ...

Arthur Kessler (1903-2000) was born on 11 October 1903 in Gewitsch, Moravia (Jevíčko, Czech Republic) to David (1866-1945) and Anna (née Gottfried, 1875-1947) Kessler. He had three brothers: Joseph (b. 1902), Julius, and Leo. The family moved to Czernowitz (Chernivtsi, Ukraine) in 1913 where David worked as a theology professor and rabbi. During World War I the family moved back to Gewitsch, but returned ...

Arthur Kessler (1903-2000) was born on 11 October 1903 in Gewitsch, Moravia (Jevíčko, Czech Republic) to David (1866-1945) and Anna (née Gottfried, 1875-1947) Kessler. He had three brothers: Joseph (b. 1902), Julius, and Leo. The family moved to Czernowitz (Chernivtsi, Ukraine) in 1913 where David worked as a theology professor and rabbi. During World War I the family moved back to Gewitsch, but returned ...

Zwi Rosenwein (Cwi) was born to Moshe Baruch (b. 1884, Czestochowa) and Hinda Devorah Rosenwein (née Dudek, b. 1887, Klabuzke) on December 6, 1918 in Czestochowa. The family was very religiously observant. Zwi spent much of his early childhood in a hospital due to various illnesses, but did well in school and joined the Gordania organization. After the German invasion in 1939, he joined a group of ...

The collection consists of three portraits of Roza Schevchenko and her family taken in Mogilev Podolski (Mohyliv-Podilʹsʹkyĭ), Ukraine, before the Holocaust and following her mother's death and her father's arrest and exile and in Czernowitz (Chernivt︠s︡i), Ukraine, after liberation.

Die Sammlung enthält v.a.: Nachkriegsberichte, Häftlingskarten, Dt. Rotes Kreuz-Korrespondenz, Effektenverzeichnisse, Sterbeurkunden, Sterbezweitbücher, Todesmeldungen, verschiedene Listen (Transportlisten, Häftlingslisten, Totenlisten, Befreiungslisten, Friedhofslisten, Listen Überlebender) Geschichte des Konzentrationslagers Bergen-Belsen 1943-1945: Das Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen wurde am ...