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This is the official Naval Staff history of the Norway campaign, originally published internally in 1951. It covers the period from early April 1940 to the completion of operations in June. The operation involved most of the Royal Navy's ships in the Home theatre at the time. Originally published in 1951 as Confidential book number 3305 and deposited in the Public Record Office. With new introd. x, ...

The Norbert Wollheim papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting Wollheim’s prewar family life in Europe, his efforts to receive restitution for his slave labor at I.G. Farben, his immigration to the United States, and his continued work with other Holocaust survivor organizations such as the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Survivors, the Auschwitz/Buna Memorial, ...

Shabbat candleholder crafted by Maurice Grauer while at a British detention camp in Cyprus from 1947 to 1948. It was carved from a floor tile using a sardine can as a carving tool. Grauer and his wife, Natalia, were on the ship, Ben Hecht, en route to Palestine when it was stopped by the British authorities. All the passengers, many of them, like the Grauers, Holocaust survivors, were detained in Cyprus. ...

The collection documents the initial publication of Warsaw Ghetto: A Diary by Mary Berg in 1945 and subsequent efforts by S.L. Shneiderman, the original editor and translator of the diary, his son Ben Shneiderman, and historian Susan Pentlin to republish the book. Included is correspondence and documents regarding various efforts to republish the diary, clippings, reviews, interview transcripts, manuscript ...

Luba Tryszynska, a Jewish woman from White Russia, near Brest-Litovsk, probably Kaments-Litovsk, who lost her husband Hersch and three-year old child Isaac at Auschwitz, was transferred from Auschwitz in November 1944 to Bergen Belsen, and began caring for children with permission of the camp doctor and of SS officials in December 1944. Beginning with a group of Dutch Jewish children, the “diamond” ...

Contains transcripts of oral history interviews, correspondence, reports, and photographs compiled by Tad Szulc while conducting research on the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Among the materials is information concerning Jewish emigration, displaced persons, Holocaust survivors, and Jews in predominantly Arab countries during the 1960s through the 1990s. Also includes the research notes used by Tad ...

With intertitles in English. Pan of a city from up above. A man and a woman pose on an outside patio overlooking the coast. Views of the city. 0:45 “Cap D’Antibes and a British Flotilla.” Coastal views with ships in the distance. 1:05 “The Funicular Railway down to Cannes.” Shots of the railway. A woman walks towards the camera from an upscale home. 1:25 “Hotel Imperiale and Gardens in Mentone.” A ...

Postcard commissioned in 1958 commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Aliyah of a group of German Jews arranged by the Irgun, a Zionist paramilitary organization in Palestine, with the assistance of leaders of the Revisionist Organization in Vienna. On March 13, 1938, Germany annexed Austria and created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. The postcard depicts the route a group of Austrian ...

Includes material from newly-released documents, this work examines the vital role played by espionage in the Allied success. It sheds new light on the role of Pope Pius XII as the contact point between the German Resistance and the British, and summarizes the principal events. --Worldcat. Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-452) and index. xii, 475 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : ...

Emphasizes the relevance of the Holocaust for the contemporary world, and the responsibility of the West, especially of the British government, for allowing Germany to build up its military strength and carry out aggressive policies which made the extermination of the Jews possible. Describes the "Final Solution" from 1942 on, and how Jewish refugees were prevented from reaching Palestine and bombing ...