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The fond contains original manuscripts and related documents of Laura Papo - Bohoreta. The Archive of Sarajevo considers this fond one of its most important and relevant collections among those of families/public figures, since Laura Papo was one of key figures in Sephardic community of Bosnia and Herzegovina. She died in 1942, and lost members of her family due to Holocaust.

Contains correspondence, questionnaires, newspaper articles, essays, photographs, and research material on the fate of so-called "Judenchristen" (persons of Christian faith regarded as Jews under the Nuremberg laws, also known as "non-Aryan Christians"), Roma, and other non-Jewish victims. The records pertain to factual and individual-related information concerning emigration, food parcels, restitution, ...

The files relating to the Jewish religion originating from the "Worship Department" of the Ministry of Justice naturally fall within the scope of the powers exercised by department: namely, recognition of the Jewish religion, synagogues and local communities, relations between the State and representatives of the religion, appointments and salaries of rabbis and cantors and management of religious ...

In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. Still reeling from the ravages of the Great War, its people were desperate to rebuild their lives in a newly safe and stable era. But only a year later, the fateful decisions of just a few men had again led Europe to war, a war that would have a profound and lasting impact on millions of innocent people. From the bestselling historian ...

It is a key fonds for the study of Czechoslovak economic history in the period 1918 to 1945. It concentrates material for the study of the state financial administration, state accounting, and the entire body of financial laws and government regulations. The focus, however, remains on the affairs of the monetary institutions, their formation, merger, organization, liquidation and, above all, their ...

Henry Morgenthau, Jr. was born on May 11, 1891 in New York, NY, and was raised in a secular German Jewish family. His father, Henry Morgenthau, Sr., was appointed Wilson’s ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, 1913-1916, and Henry Jr. visited his father in Istanbul. Though Henry attended Cornell University, he did not graduate but instead bought a large farm in Dutchess County, NY, near the home of Franklin ...

The Jewish population in the Lublin district was scattered among many small towns and villages, making control difficult for the Nazis. Until summer 1941, responsibility for Jewish policy lay in the hands of the civil administration. Local administrative chiefs (Kreishauptleute) had considerable autonomy; thus, treatment of Jews was not uniform. The general policy was to exclude Jews from the economy ...

This thesis provides a survey of the English memory of the Second World War and Holocaust using oral interviews. Drawing from work by Halbwachs on collective memory and Grele on myth-making I demonstrate how people use national collective memory to provide frameworks for their individual narratives of memory or remembrance. I will also show how various influences from media and education have contributed ...

Chs. 1-5 (pp. 10-89) deal with Germany before World War II: antisemitism in the Weimar Republic and in the NSDAP, the Nuremberg Laws, the expulsion of the Jews from the German economy, and the "Kristallnacht" pogrom. The rest of the book deals with the war period. 17 July 1942 was the date of Himmler's visit to Auschwitz, where he witnessed a selection and gassing and decided that the deportation and ...

Antisemitic flier for the Der Stürmer newspaper showing photographic images of the “devilish grins” of Jews. The text claims that Jews are born criminals, who are incapable of laughter, and can only smile nefariously, which implies their untrustworthy nature. Two versions of the flier were published: this one with red lettering and an advertisement on the bottom, and one with black-and-white text without ...