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This addition to Longman's Origins of Modern Wars series traces the course of events that led to the Second World War in Europe from 1932 through to Germany's invasion of Russia in 1941. 2nd ed. xiii, 370 pages : maps ; 22 cm.

The collection consists of pre-war and post-war photographs depicting the Szarfharc family in Lodz, Poland. The photographs depict Dawid Szarfharc, his wife, Tola, and their daughter Rojza Szarfharc, Ewa Szarfharc, Roza, Celina, and Dorota Szarfharc, and Felek Tobiasz.

Consists of an essay written by Henry Bauer, who was born in Mannheim, Germany, in 1917. Mr. Bauer emigrated to the United States in February 1940, joined the American military and was sent to North Africa and assigned to administer Allied internment camps for German and Italian prisoners of war. He was transferred to Italy and then participated in the invasion of southern France. After the end of ...

Abraham Briansky's memoir describes how he: was deported from the Soviet Union because of a letter that he wrote and sent to Joseph Stalin; spent two years in Palestine; emigrated to France; fought in the French army during the German invasion; fled to southern France following the French capitulation; was captured by German soldiers after he tried to recover some property in Vichy France; and escaped ...

Consists of one memoir, 13 pages, entitled "Krulik's Story," by Israel (Krulik) Wilder. Wilder describes his childhood in Piotrkow, Poland, the German invasion in 1939, his family's escape to Radom, and life in the Radom ghetto. Israel Wilder got a job working forced labor at the Hortensia glass factory, where he worked until November 1944. He was deported to a series of camps, ending at Buchenwald ...

Ruth Salton was born January 22, 1927, in Berlin, Germany. She was hidden in Warsaw, Poland, by a Polish family at the time of the Nazi invasion in 1939. She escaped to the Russian-occupied region of Poland and was deported to Siberia until 1944. She moved to Stettin, Germany, and joined a kibbutz there and was later active in the Bricha, helping to smuggle Jews across Europe en route to Palestine ...

Memoir, 13 pages, relates the Holocaust experiences of Joseph Sungolowsky, who escaped from Belgium to France with his family after the Nazi invasion in 1940. The son of a rabbi, Joseph and his family went into hiding in Nice, France, with the help of the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE).

Marek Liwszyc was the son of Joseph Liwszyc and Eidia Berenzon (b. 1889). He was born on June 28, 1915 in Ostrog in eastern Poland. Joseph, a pharmacist, passed away in 1919 when Marek was only four years old. Eidia then supported her son as a teacher. Marek also became a teacher, and in August 1937 he married another teacher, Lucy Elka (Ela), b. 1916. Following the start of World War II, Ostrog fell ...

Documents, mimeographed, from the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, 1961. Includes text of the opening address by the prosecution (Gideon Hausner), and minutes of sessions 15 and 16 of the trial. The documents were collected by Michel Levant, while he was an observer at the trial. Levant's family had emigrated from France prior to the German invasion in 1940, and he later served in the United States ...

This is a personal account by a member of General MacArthur's staff of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in World War II, the fall of Bataan and Corregidor, his own capture by the enemy and his imprisonment in a POW camp, and the conditions at the camp. The author also describes his escape and work with the guerrilla forces and his participation in the recapture of Corregidor in February 1945. ...