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In this fonds we firstly point out the relevant files containing correspondence with the WJC office in Brussels, Jewish organisations and individuals (files nrs. C2/1002 and C2/1317; years 1959-1962), with the Belgian ambassadors in London concerning the Bergen-Belsen memorial (C2/1766; 1948-1952), with He’atid – Federation of Zionists (C2/1196; 1942-1947), with the Conseil des Associations Juives ...

Combines historical analysis and reflection with occasional citations of the survivor author's experiences. Deals with antisemitism, political racism and social Darwinism, Weimar Germany, Hitler and his ideology, the Final Solution, the various roles of people during the Holocaust (collaborators, bystanders, resisters, deniers, non-Jewish victims, and rescuers), children, the end of the Third Reich ...

Discusses Nazi ideology and the centrality of the arts in Hitler's worldview and as an instrument of propaganda. Analyzes the Nazi concept of "degenerate" art, which was equated with Jewish-influenced art, even though most of the artists condemned by the Nazis were not, in fact, Jewish. Describes the third annual Day of German Art celebrated in Munich on 14-16 July 1939 and attended by Hitler and most ...

Traces the policy of the state toward the Jews, and the ideological and political bases of antisemitism, from the Russian Revolution to the present. Opposition to antisemitism and a certain latitude for Jewish culture gave way in the 1930s to suppression and the purging of Jewish officials. In the late 1940s-early 50s, persecution peaked with the "Doctors' Plot" and the murder of Jewish leaders. For ...

Compared to the numerous books and articles on the Third Reich, few address its material culture, and fewer still discuss the phenomenon of Nazi memorabilia. This is all the more surprising given that Nazi symbols, so central to sustaining Hitler's movement, continue to live long after the collapse of his 12-year Reich. Neither did Nazi ideology die, far-right populists would like to see the swastika ...

The records of the Institute of Jewish Affairs have been divided into five main sections, as MSS 237-41, maintaining the subject arrangement that the Institute used for its documentation collections. The records of the London office and British section of the World Jewish Congress are distributed in several places in this arrangement. The archive contains: MS 237: information from the press and other ...