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Consists of various personal documents, correspondence, notes and other mementos of a Jewish family from the circles of the assimilated intelligentsia. The collection is divided into four series. The first series contains literary works, mainly by Juliusz Feldhorn, the poetry of Stella Landy and memoirs of Maria Krawczyk which contains information about the family’s fate, and photographs. The second ...

Introduction: Entangled Histories in the Age of Extremes / Michael David-Fox. - "A Belgium of Our Own" : The Sack of Russian Kalisz, August 1914 / Laura Engelstein. - United by Barbed Wire : Russian POWs in Germany, National Stereotypes, and International Relations, 1914-1922 / Oksana Nagornaya. - Iron Revolutionaries and Salon Socialists : Bolsheviks and German Communists in the 1920s and 1930s / ...

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, ...

Private collection of Stanisław Dobosiewicz. Includes various materials mostly collected by Dobosiewicz among the former prisoners of the KL Mauthausen-Gusen: biographical materials, studies and own texts by Stanisław Dobosiewicz, letters and correspondence, memories and accounts of former prisoners of the Mauthausen-Gusen camp relating to resistance movement inside the camp, attempts to escape and ...

Holocaust survivor Bernard Aldebert's memoirs and sketches of his experiences on the concentration camp "circuit." At the beginning of the narrative, in January 1944, the author is already an inmate in the Compiègne internment camp, having been arrested in 1943 for a caricature of Hitler. The majority of the work depicts the Mauthausen-Gusen camp complex, known for extermination through labor of the ...

Includes reports, evidence documents, investigation results, and other materials relating to the committee’s investigation on the Katyṅ Forest Massacre,1940 (Murder of the Polish officers and Polish intelligentsia).

The Ecole Nationale des Cadres was set up at the Chateau d'Uriage, in the Alps above Grenoble, to train an elite drawn from the young intelligentsia as part of a larger effort to transform the nation. In The Knight-Monks of Vichy France John Hellman describes the founding, operation, transformation, and demise of the school, details the institution's ideological and political struggles with other segments ...

The Ukrainian battalion Nachtigall was formed by Stepan Bandera (1909-1959), a very controversial figure in Ukrainian history. He was a Ukrainian nationalist who in June 1941 proclaimed independence for Ukraine. During 1941-44, he was presumably imprisoned at Sachsenhausen concentration camp for this declaration of independence, since it wasn't approved by the German command. Released in 1944 he continued ...

Consists of selected records of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Polish government-in-exile. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Polish government-in-exile between 1940-1949 was overseen by four ministers: Stanisław Kot (1940-1941), Stanisław Mikołajczyk (1941-1943), Władysław Banaczyk (1943-1944), Zygmunt Berezowski (1944-1949). These documents relate to the re-creation and reorganization ...

Józef Kuźba was born in what is now the province of Pomerania, Poland, in August 1916, and died on 30 October, 2012. Trained as a teacher, and therefore belonging to the Polish intelligentsia, he found himself to be part of a group that was targeted for extermination immediately following the German invasion of Poland in 1939. Because of this, he escaped to Slovakia in 1940, where he was subsequently ...