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In the 1980s, Iran committed mass killings of political prisoners. Many of those responsible for these crimes against humanity went on to hold high office in Iran. After decades of silence and intimidation, surviving political prisoners and relatives of victims were able to testify to an international tribunal in the International Court of Justice in the Hague. The verdict of the tribunal was handed ...

This collection contains legal regulations concerning the granting of distinctions and applications of SS and police chief officers of various ranks submitted to superior authorities in order to decorate subordinating officers with: crosses and war medals, the Iron Cross, distinctions for “courage,” “gallantry," and “fighting bandits.” Also included is correspondence related to the confirmation or ...

The Sobibor Death Camp was the second extermination camp built by the Nazis as part of the secretive Operation Reinhardt -- with intent to carry out the mass murder of Polish Jewry. Following the construction of the extermination camp at Belzec in south-eastern Poland from November 1941 to March 1942, the Nazis planned a second extermination camp at Sobibor, and the third and deadliest camp was built ...

The News Parade newsreel footage of events surrounding the German annexation of Austria in March 1938. Various shots of military fighting and smoke. Chancellor von Schuschnigg greets Austrians and speaks from a podium. German troops marching over the border and into the streets of Vienna. Crowd/parade sequences, motorcades, several shots of crowds engaged in Nazi salute. Hitler's arrival. Shop signs ...

Until now there has never been a systematic assessment of the "double jeopardy" of Jewish women in the Holocaust, because most of the chroniclers of this cruelest tragedy of modern history have been men. Yet for women, as scholar Myrna Goldenberg observes, "The hell was the same, but the horrors were different." Different Voices is the most thoroughgoing examination of women's experiences of the Holocaust ...

Cette riche correspondance de Raymond Goldwater raconte le périple d'un officier britannique juif à la fin de la seconde guerre mondiale en Europe, puis en Inde.David Rosenberg écrit ces quelques lignes au sujet de cette collection : "Le Lieutenant Raymond Goldwater est arrivé en France dans le contexte du débarquement allié (D-Day). Ses premières lettres, adressées à ses parents et amis en Grande ...

This is the story of the destruction of a talented Jewish family, and of the survival against all the odds of two young sisters. It is one of the most moving stories to emerge from the Second World War. Anita and her elder sister Renate defied death at the hands of the Gestapo and the SS over a period of two and a half years when they were sucked into the whirlpool of Nazi mass extermination, being ...

Session 106. Eichmann says (midsentence) that nobody in his office questioned any orders, giving plenty of examples (part duplicated on Tape 2191). Eichmann says that those at the Wannsee Conference discussed the various ways that the Jews could be exterminated. Judge Raveh then asks why Eichmann celebrated the end of the conference with Mueller and Heydrich, why was he the third man if he only gave ...

Archief van Albertine Hanneke ('Hanneke') Eikema (Benningbroek, 23 maart 1925 - Missoula (Verenigde Staten), 15 april 2012. Schuilnaam: Ellie van Dijk. Na de oorlog ook bekend onder haar trouwnamen Rappe en Ippisch. Verzetsdeelneemster. Hanneke Eikema volgde tijdens de oorlog een opleiding bij de Academie voor Lichamelijke Opvoeding in Amsterdam en is actief in de padvinderij. Ze raakt betrokken bij ...