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An intelligent and politically engaged man who was approaching forty, Ben Alper tried for nearly two years to join actively in the war against fascism. Finally, in September 1943, he was accepted by the army, assigned to the military police, and shipped out to serve in Northern Africa and Italy. Thus began a daily stream of letters to Ethel, his wife. Selected from among the eight hundred letters written ...

"'The complete lives of camp people' brings together a study of the infamous Dutch colonial camp for political prisoners, Boven Digoel, located in an isolated part of New Guinea, with a consideration of the Nazi work camp Theresienstadt. Through a focus on the minutiae of daily life in these camps, Rudolf Mrázek shows how the world of the twentieth century became the world of the camps. The project ...

Name / Sponsored by / Circulation / Length / Dates / Frequency / Language / Issues stored Azat Kirim (Liberated Crimea) / Simferopol city administration, then Crimean Muslim Committee / Up to 15,000 / 4 pp.; length changes / January 11, 1942 – April 9, 1944 / 2/week / Crimean Tatar (Cyrillic, Latin, Arabic script) / 1942 – No. 1-27, 29-68, 70-96, 1943 – No. 99-174, 176-194, 1944 г. – No. 195-221. Biuleten’ ...

Emil Knebel was a cinematographer known for Andante (2010), Adam (1973), and Wild Is My Love (1963). He was one of the cameramen who recorded daily coverage of the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem (produced by Capital Cities Broadcasting Corp and later held academic positions in Israel and New York teaching filmmaking at universities. Refer to CV in file.

Anatole Ponevejsky (1900-1969) was born in the Siberian city of Irkutsk. In the 1920s, he and his brothers David and Leo moved to Harbin, Manchuria, where they began a business of importing woolens from Japan. There he married Gita Preisman whose family had also come to Manchuria from Irkutsk. In 1935, Ponevejsky went to Japan to run the exports side of the business. He first settled in Yokohama where ...

Mogens Kofod-Hansen was born on December 5, 1920, in Denmark. He was educated in Sweden and Great Britain, as well as in Denmark. He was trained as a journalist and worked for several small town Danish newspapers. He became involved with the Danish resistance movement soon after the German occupation of Denmark began on April 9, 1940. On August 29, 1943, the Germans declared martial law and began to ...

"From 1940 to 1944, German soldiers not only fought in and ruled over France, but also lived their lives there. While the combat experiences of German soldiers are relatively well-documented, as are the everyday lives of the occupied French population, we know much less about occupiers' daily activities beyond combat, especially when it comes to men who were not top-level administrators. Using letters, ...

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 ...

Combining military, political, cultural, social, and oral history, Sebastian Balfour narrates for the first time the development of a brutalised, interventionist army that played a crucial role in the victory of the Francoists in the Spanish Civil War. Spain's new colonial venture in Morocco in the early twentieth-century turned into a bloody war against the tribes resisting the Spanish invasion of ...

Sessions 6, 7 and 8. The Court is in recess. The camera focuses on the glass booth, and pans to Defense Attorney Dr. Robert Servatius as he walks to his desk. The Judges enter the courtroom and open the session. Attorney General Gideon Hausner continues his opening statement with Section IX - "The Camps." He asserts: "...as late as the beginning of 1945, on the threshold of the end of the war, Eichmann ...