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"Never before in English, Armenian Golgotha is the most dramatic and comprehensive eyewitness account of the first modern genocide. On April 24, 1915, the priest Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with some 250 other intellectuals and leaders of Constantinople's Armenian community. It was the beginning of the Ottoman Turkish government's systematic attempt to eliminate the Armenian people from Turkey; ...

Presents a letter written by Schächter (b. 1911 in Bukovina) in 1943 to her brothers in America, when she was interned in Murafa, a ghetto in Transnistria. Pp. 22-107 contain the original Yiddish text (in Latin script) and a German translation. Ca. 100,000 Jews from Bukovina and Bessarabia were relocated to 100 ghettos in Transnistria by the Romanian government from summer 1941. Schaechter describes ...

This is the story of Chiune Sugihara, a diplomat and spy who saved as many as 10,000 Jews from deportation to concentration camps and almost certain death. Because of his extreme modesty, Sugihara's tremendous act of moral courage is only now beginning to become widely known. Unlike Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat whose government sent him to Hungary with the express purpose of saving Jews, ...

Antisemitic flier for the Der Stürmer newspaper showing photographic images of the “devilish grins” of Jews. The text claims that Jews are born criminals, who are incapable of laughter, and can only smile nefariously, which implies their untrustworthy nature. Two versions of the flier were published: this one with red lettering and an advertisement on the bottom, and one with black-and-white text without ...

"Cambodia. Rwanda. Armenia. Nazi Germany. History remembers these places as the sites of unspeakable crimes against humanity, and indisputably, of genocide. Yet, throughout the twentieth century, the world has seen many instances of violence committed by states against certain groups within their borders--from the colonial ethnic cleansing the Germans committed against the Herero tribe in Africa, to ...

The collection contains selected investigative files of the Staatsanwaltschaft bei dem Sondergericht Warschau (State Prosecutor of the Special Court Warsaw) relating to breaking the law during German occupation in Poland by Poles and Jews. Includes files concerning crimes such as illegal political activities, participation in resistance movements, administrative and official violations of the law, ...

The Urząd Wojewódzki Śląski w Katowicach (Silesian Voivodship Office in Katowice) undertook its activity on the basis of a decree of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (Polish Committee of National Liberation) from August 21, 1944 on the procedure of appointing the authorities of the general administration of the first and second instance, in January 1945. The internal organization of the reactivated ...

"For six months, Côte d'Ivoire residents endured horrific human rights abuses following the refusal of incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo to relinquish power when the country's electoral commission and international observers declared his opponent, Alassane Ouattara, the winner of the November 28, 2010, run-off election. Months after the April 11 arrest of Gbagbo by Ouattara's armed forces, the prospect ...

The first genocide of the twentieth century, though not well known, was committed by Germans between 1904-1907 in the country we know today as Namibia, where they exterminated thousands of Herero and Nama people and subjected the surviving indigenous men, women, and children to forced labor. The perception of Africans as subhuman--lacking any kind of civilization, history, or meaningful religion--and ...

Starting in June, 1944, a commission was created by Provisional Government of the French Republic in Algiers, as the jurist René Cassin, who had joined De Gaulle in London, advised. This commission was eventually going to report its findings to the U.N. offices in London and the international investigative committee for all Axis war crimes, later known as CROWCASS (Central Registry of War Criminals ...