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Based on a lecture given at the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem on 21 November 2001. Contends that a structuralist explanation of the Nazi genocide of the Jews emerged in West German historiography already in the 1950s. At this stage, the essence of the controversy between intentionalists and functionalists was the question of responsibility: was it certain individuals ...

The documents within the Paul Fisch collection were created by a Hungarian student group in Zurich, Switzerland. The report includes a summary of The Auschwitz Protocol, also known as the Vrba-Wetzler Report, which contains eyewitness accounts of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Also included is a report of the state of Hungarian Jews in 1944, and a document that describes the process for growing ...

The Social Insurance Institution (Polish: 'Zakład Ubezpieczeń Społecznych, ZUS') is a Polish state organization responsible for social insurance matters, operating since 1934. ZUS is supervised by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy. The Historical Commission was established in 1946 by the resolution of the Temporary Council of the Social Insurance Institution, its task was to develop the history ...

Presents 158 documents (mostly from 1943), in Italian or German, from the archives of the Italian Foreign Ministry, and a brief English summary of each document. The documents clarify the situation of the Jewish community in Salonika during World War II. As Germany's major ally and as a country which had some citizens, including Jews, living in the German-occupied zone of Greece, Italy saved a number ...

Documentation from the Allgemeines Krankenhaus (General Hospital) in Barmbeck (a suburb of Hamburg)
 
 The General Hospital in Barmbeck started to be partially active in November 1913, and it opened completely in August 1914 with a capacity of 2,400 beds. The hospital was a part of the system of regional hospitals of Hamburg State. For several years during World War II, the hospital was subjugated ...

In March 1996 the Norwegian Ministry of Justice appointed a Committee of Inquiry to investigate what happened to Jewish property in Norway during World War II and how and to what extent confiscated property was returned to the Jews after the war. In 1997 two separate reports were submitted: the report of the majority of the committee's members (a summary of which is given here) and the present report ...

Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish ...

Subject: Introduction. - Trutz von Trotha / On Cruelty. Conceptual Considerations and a Summary of an Interdisciplinary Debate. - Part I On the Foundations of a Theory of Cruelty. - Étienne Le Roy / Entre évitements et engagements citoyens. Pour une épistémologie transmoderne d'une science de la cruauté et une éthique de la citoyenneté. - Heike Kämpf / Grausamkeit aus der Sicht der Philosophischen ...

"Violence so often begets violence. Victims respond with revenge only to inspire seemingly endless cycles of retaliation. Conflicts between nations, between ethnic groups, between strangers, and between family members differ in so many ways and yet often share this dynamic. In this powerful and timely book Martha Minow and others ask: What explains these cycles and what can break them? What lessons ...

Personal papers including Frieda Newton's certificate of origin ('Heimatschein'), school reports, birth certificate, work references, papers for emigration such as medical certificate, police and tax clearance certificates, correspondence with the Austrian Self-Aid Domestic Agency in London, hairdressing and manicure certificate issued by the emigration department of the Jewish Community in Vienna ...

Hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces launched a devastating attack on U.S. troops in the Philippines. In May 1942, after months of battle with no reinforcements and no hope of victory, the remaining American forces, holed up on the tiny island of Corregidor, suffered a humiliating defeat, and 11,000 fighting men became prisoners of war in the largest American capitulation since ...

NELLIE DE WAELE (NL) Mevrouw de Waele heeft als jong meisje de razzia gezien. Ze vertelt over het bombardement op Rotterdam waarbij ze haar huis verloor, over de angst voor de NSB’er in haar straat, hoe zij de razzia heeft beleefd en de Hongerwinter die daarop volgde en waarin zij haar vader verloor. Inhoud bestand _data:Verslag van geïnterviewde over haar ervaringen tijdens het bombardement op Rotterdam ...