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Files of the Polish Red Cross documenting assistance to prisoners in the Lublin-Majdanek camp and the Lublin castle: approximately 10,400 card files (first and last names, date and place of birth, names of parents, camp numbers) of prisoners who received parcels (1943/1944), lists of prisoners receiving assistance, correspondence with families of prisoners; 150 postcards and letters of prisoners to ...

The fonds contains documents arisen from the activities of the district office: official books, file material, accounting material, and others. Explicit mentions of Jews can be found in the following documents: inv. no. 411 Abolition of the Jewish religious community (Strančice) 1934-1939; inv. no. 420 Records of foreigners, permitting travel to Jews, dissolution of summer camps 1939-1942; inv. no. ...

The first record of Chlumec is from 1325. Originally, this municipality belonged to the Šternberk family. During the first half of the 19th century, a district court, a district office and a district council were established in the town. Patrimonial authorities and municipality offices were to cease operations on 1 January 1850. In June 1850, part of the files were moved from the abolished municipality ...

Discusses Nazi ideology and the centrality of the arts in Hitler's worldview and as an instrument of propaganda. Analyzes the Nazi concept of "degenerate" art, which was equated with Jewish-influenced art, even though most of the artists condemned by the Nazis were not, in fact, Jewish. Describes the third annual Day of German Art celebrated in Munich on 14-16 July 1939 and attended by Hitler and most ...

A history of the camp of Drancy, based on eyewitness testimonies, especially by Paul Zuckermann, Nissim-Noël Calef, and Georges Kohn, as well as material from newly opened archives. Between 1941-44, 67,000 of the 75,000 Jews deported from France, most of them foreigners, passed through Drancy. 80,000 additional Jews spent shorter or longer periods interned there. Describes the organization of the camp ...

American food aid to foreigners long has been the most visible--and most popular--means of providing humanitarian aid to millions of hungry people confronted by war, terrorism and natural cataclysms and the resulting threat--often the reality--of famine and death. The book investigates the little-known, not-well-understood and often highly-contentious political processes which have converted American ...

Consists of selected records of the municipality Żyrardów-Wiskitki, Poland, e.g. registers of foreigners; files on inhabitants of Teklinów, Feliksów, Henryków, Kozłowice, Ruda Guzowska and Wiskitki; a list of 937 Jews from Wiskitki, 1937-1940; various correspondence of the municipality Żyrardów-Wiskitki; registers of homeowners; birth and death certificates; records of the "Polski Komitet Opiekuńczy" ...

"Race relations" are a controversial topic in today's Germany. Have Germans learned from the past? How far back must one go to understand the tensions, prejudices, and strategies that have marked race relations in the recently unified nation? The Imperialist Imagination explores the German preoccupation with racial and ethnic differences throughout the past two centuries, in a colonial and "postcolonial" ...

Correspondence, circulars, press clippings, and publications related to the persecution of Jews in Germany, German minorities in Poland, the Polish minority in Germany, repression against Polish citizens, the census in Germany, Ukrainians in France, and guidelines on tracking the activities of organizations. Also included are the instruction of the Polish Embassy in Paris (1938), reports of consulates ...

The Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft was founded as Deutsche Ansiedlungsbank already in 1898. The original functions of his organisation were expanded significantly in the period of National Socialism and the name was changed 1936 into Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft. It had a statutory right of preemption in the purchase of large agricultural estate. The Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft acquired, ...