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Bereik en inhoud Karate‑do is een uit het verre oosten overgekomen zelfverdedigingskunst. Karate betekent 'lege hand', waarmee bedoeld wordt, dat er geen gebruik gemaakt wordt van wapens. In het woordje 'do', dat letterlijk 'de weg' betekent, wordt het doel van de karatebeoefening weergegeven, namelijk karate als middel tot innerlijke vervolmaking. Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog volgde het karate de weg ...

Consists of two testimonies written by Rosemarie Palliser, originally of Berlin, Germany. Includes one testimony, 2 pages, entitled "Our Flight From Germany, 1939," in which Ms. Palliser describes her father's role as the director of a vocational school for Jewish boys and his determination to have all the children immigrate to safety. In August 1939, Ms. Palliser and her family, along with the boys ...

Consists of copies of letters exchanged primarily between the Jacob Mann Family and the Sidney Mandelbaum family between November 1938 and March 1949. The letters concern the attempts of Jacob Mann to emigrate, along with his wife and daughter, to the U.S. just prior to the start of World War II with sponsorship and financial assistance from the Mandelbaum family. Several letters relate to the work ...

The film tells the story of Taner Akçam and Vahakn N. Dadrian, both scientists. One is Turkish, the other Armenian. After 85 years they gently start a unique dialogue about the past during World War I and 'the Armenian question' 1 DVD. : kleur, geluid. ; 4 3/4 in.

Stored in the Photo Archive Collection of the Jewish Museum in Prague are several thousand photographs taken between the start of the 1940s and the present day. This includes negatives of various materials and dimensions (from glass plates to colour film) as well as positive prints, of which several thousand (predominantly glass plates and medium format negatives on artificial stock) document the life ...

De start van operatie ‘Barbarossa’ was het begin van een van de meest dramatische veldtochten uit de Wereldgeschiedenis. Twee titanen botsten op elkaar. De zomer van 1941 was ronduit catastrofaal voor het Rode Leger. Toch hield men uiteindelijk stand. Over dit met bloed betaalde wonder gaat dit indringende boek, dat laat zien dat heroiek en terreur hand in hand gaan in het tegenhouden van ...

The diary of a Croatian girl whose world collapses, when war breaks out. Filipovic begins her diary in autumn 1991 as a contented 10-year-old. Soon the bombs start falling; her friends are killed by shrapnel or snipers' bullets; her family's country house burns down, and they survive on UN food packages, without gas, electricity or water, as thousands of Sarajevans die. Filipovic, whose circle of friends ...

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