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Winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for best book in translation 1998. 160 p. : krt. ; 20 cm.

Met lit. opg. en index. 281 p. ; 23 cm.

Met literatuuropgaven.

This is the story of Aleksandr "Sasha" Pechersky who, on October 14, 1943, led a mass escape of inmates from Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in Poland. It shows the tremendous difference in the memorial cultures between Western and Eastern societies and also how Jews were not passive in the face of German violence. Pechersky, along with other Russian and Jewish inmates who had been prisoners of the Nazis, ...

(Munich 676) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings - Hostages Trial #7, Nuremberg, Germany, February 1948. Sentencing Southeast Generals. HAS, tribunal as Judge Charles F. Wennerstrum announces that sentencing will now be imposed. First two generals - List and Kuntze - are given lifetime imprisonment. Former Generals Rendulic, Dehner, Speidel, Leyser, Felmy, Lanz are identified by name and ...

Contains a memoir, 320 pages, about the Holocaust in the Dutch village of Putten.

Created (or rather re-activated) in 1942 by the Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, the Commission des prisonniers, intern?s et civils (Commission PIC) was mandated to deal with all questions relating to the treatment of POWs and civilian internees (which included victims of racial persecution and political detainees). It was incumbent upon the PIC to pass on all necessary instructions to those ...

The collection documents the development and application of hostage and reprisal policies in occupied France under the military authorities and later the SS. Contains detailed prisoner and hostage lists from places such as Melun, Amiens, Laon, and Rouen, as well as reports and correspondence about prison conditions and shootings. Title of collection used is that applied by the source repository, to ...

Samuel Frateli Nahmias (Volos, 1904-Thessaloniki, 1974) Fratelis (Telis) Samuel Nahmias (Thessaloniki, 1935-2018)

This fonds contains correspondence on the situation of and assistance to hostages and political prisoners. In section BG 44 04 we find correspondence (1943-1945) on this subject with the CICR delegation in Belgium (file BG 44 04-151) and the former Belgian Congo (BG 44 04-150), with the Belgian Red Cross (BG 44 04-194) and the Belgian government, particularly consulates and embassies (BG 44 04-172). ...

Collection includes: Note from November 14, 1941 by the head of the Kharkiv City Council about the arrest of 50 Communists and Jews as hostages (inventory 2, file 7, p. 9).