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The legendary image of Franklin D. Roosevelt as a liberal and humanitarian president who was concerned for the downtrodden conflicts with his response to the Nazi persecution of European Jewry. During the years of Nazi rule in Germany, the Roosevelt administration ignored the plight of European Jews, obstructed opportunities for their rescue, closed the country's doors before refugees (ca. 190,000 ...

Karl Loewenstein (1887-1976) was born to Jewish parents in Siegen, Germany, and in 1917 he married Margot Hamburger, who also came from a Jewish family. In 1919, however, he converted to Christianity as a Lutheran. After having served as a naval officer during World War I, he worked as a director of a bank in Berlin, named Busse and Co. He was active in a Lutheran parish in Berlin-Weissensee, and in ...

The Mark Stern papers consist of letters and postcards from Jacob, Erna, Tosia, and Manek Stern [donor's father, mother, sister, and donor] in Poland and Italy to Leon Stern [donor's brother] in Palestine. Topics range from everyday life (school, work, family business, health, and weather) to life after liberation, conditions in an United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) camp, ...

Contains financial and administrative documents from the Kreishauptamt Zamość, Finanzkasse relating to confiscated food and fines leveled against Jews in the Zamość area; guidelines for regulation of non-German labor; reports on evacuation and relocation of Poles and Ukrainians; lists of families and camp inmates released for labor from the Arbeitsamt Zamość; and provisions for police and prisoners ...

The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was an international relief agency representing 44 nations, but largely dominated by the United States. Founded in 1943, it became part of the United Nations (UN) in 1945, and it largely shut down operations in 1947. Its purpose was to "plan, co-ordinate, administer or arrange for the administration of measures for the relief of victims ...

The agenda of the City National Committee of Rožňava holds records of the city administration in the period between 1945 and 1990. A specific segment of the archival collections preserves archival materials related to the immediate post-WWII period when Holocaust survivors were returning from the concentration camps and were trying to get back their confiscated real estate and movable property. The ...

The District Office in Nová Baňa was a state administration body. It was established during the period of 1st Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938) and it existed also during the period of the Slovak state/ Slovak Republic (1939-1945).

National committees were established on the territory of Slovakia during the Second World War based on the decree of the President of the Republic no. 18/1944 of December 4, 1944. National committees have replaced the existing municipal councils in post-war Czechoslovakia. The District National Committee of Kráľovský Chlmec was responsible for the district administration between November 1944 and 1960 ...

Chronicles the history of war crimes trials in Germany, the preparations for the trial of Auschwitz criminals in Frankfurt in 1963-65, and the trial itself. Pp. 92-211 contain excerpts from the 900-page sentence, with commentary and connecting texts by the authors. They deal with conditions in the camp, characterizations of the accused, and testimonies by survivors, as well as the legal problems of ...

After the liberation of Rimavská Sobota on December 21, 1944 by the Soviet army, the local non-native committee took over the administration of the city from mid-January 1945. National committees were established on the territory of Slovakia during the Second World War based on the decree of the President of the Republic no. 18/1944 of December 4, 1944. National committees have replaced the existing ...