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Investigation files relating to the pogrom of Jews in Wodzisław in Nov. 1918. Includes also two investigative cases about communist activities.

Memoirs of a Jewish woman, born in 1918 in Vienna. Relates the fate of her family (Beck) in the Holocaust. During the "Kristallnacht" pogrom, Grete's brother was arrested and imprisoned; he was released on condition that he leave Austria in two weeks. With much effort, her mother obtained a visa for him to Shanghai; her father also left for Shanghai in April 1939, while Grete and her sister were sent ...

Combines the biography of Alfred Wiener and the history of the archive library and research institute known as the Wiener Library. It was established by Wiener in 1934 in Amsterdam, to where he emigrated from Germany in 1933. Called the Jewish Central Information Office, it was modelled after the Centralverein's "Buero Wilhelmstrasse, " which had collected information on Nazi ideology and activities, ...

Diverse documentation from the Voivodeship Office in Kielce, records related to: identification of dead corpses of people who died during the World War II, war graves, removal of gravestones from pavements, security matters (assaults on Jews in the postwar period, including the Kielce pogrom of July 4, 1946 and other antisemitic riots), registers of war damages, changes of surnames, giving names to ...

Examines Warburg's scholarly work in relation to his lifelong concern with antisemitism. As a student in Germany in the 1880s he was aware of the antisemitism around him; as a Jew he could not hope to become a reserve officer (the key to advancement) or a university professor. He considered making it his life mission to "solve the Jewish question". The problem worsened during and after World War I. ...

In February 1937, following an abortive attack by a handful of insurgents on Mussolini's High Command in Italian-occupied Ethiopia, 'repression squads' of armed Blackshirts and Fascist civilians were unleashed on the defenceless residents of Addis Ababa. In three terror-filled days and nights of arson, murder and looting, thousands of innocent and unsuspecting men, women and children were roasted alive, ...

The collection contains various documents of the Soviet government and Communist Party regional administration related to the history of Jewish communities of the Khmelnytsky region (formerly Kamenets-Podolsky region) before and after WWII. Included are statistical information, family lists, documents about Jewish schools and reading rooms, the promotion of literacy and vocational training, bylaws ...

Discusses the situation of Jewish DPs in Austria. There were ca. 12,500 DPs there in November 1945, 6,000 of them in the American zone, which included Vienna. Reports on the escape of Polish Jews who were exposed to pogroms in postwar Poland. Between July-September 1946 ca. 100,000 Polish Jews fled to the West. These new refugees had perceived that the liberation did not mark the end of the life-threatening ...

This multidisciplinary volume brings together scholars and activists to examine expressions of racism in contemporary policy areas, including education, labour, immigration, media, and urban planning. While anti-racist struggles during the twentieth century were largely pitched against overt forms of racism (e.g., pogroms, genocide, segregation, apartheid, and 'ethnic cleansing'), it has become increasingly ...

Traces the history of the Holocaust in Riga: the pogroms and massacres at the start of the Nazi occupation in July 1941; the decision to stop these, in order to exploit the Jews, segregated in a ghetto, as forced laborers in war industries; the massacre in November-December 1941, at Himmler's orders, of most of the Jews of the ghetto except for a few thousand skilled workers, in order to make room ...

Includes title of the film and intertitles. From opening credits of the film (Foreword): "American Jews at the outbreak of the World War in 1914, organized the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) to aid the Jewish masses overseas suffering from war, pogroms, famine and pestilence. The following episodes depict the activities in Russia only." Brief shots of Felix Warburg and Julius Rosenwald, ...