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"This book informs the public for the first time about the impact of American psychiatry on soldiers during World War II. Breaking Point is the first in-depth history of American psychiatry in World War II. Drawn from unpublished primary documents, oral histories, and the author's personal interviews and correspondence over years with key psychiatric and military policymakers, it begins with Franklin ...

Reel 14: (1945) Concentration camp in Nordhausen, Germany; Ike, Frankfurt; Air trip to England; Cambridge American soldiers board military planes in a field. Sign, "Leave Flight Officers." Ansco (film) logo. At Nordhausen concentration camp, soldiers inspect rocket debris. [Fedeli reports visiting the contentration camp at 'Buchenwald' near Weimar, Germany in late April 1945.] Brief LS of camp buildings ...

Mogens Kofod-Hansen was born on December 5, 1920, in Denmark. He was educated in Sweden and Great Britain, as well as in Denmark. He was trained as a journalist and worked for several small town Danish newspapers. He became involved with the Danish resistance movement soon after the German occupation of Denmark began on April 9, 1940. On August 29, 1943, the Germans declared martial law and began to ...

The Ruth Wertheim papers consists of three letters written by Ruth Wertheim following her liberation from the labor camp Marzdorf/Riesengebirge, and addressed to friends and relatives in Detroit, Michigan, 1945-1946. Also included is a newspaper clipping listing the "Nuremberg Laws," 1935.

"A masterful telling of the way World War Two has been remembered, forgotten, and remade by Canada over seventy-five years. The Second World War shaped modern Canada. It led to the country's emergence as a middle power on the world stage; the rise of the welfare state; industrialization, urbanization, and population growth. After the war, Canada increasingly turned toward the United States in matters ...

Taube alias Tauba Nussbaum, commonly known as Thérèse, was born in Siedlec, Poland, on 30 January 1896 as the daughter of Isaac Nussbaum and Esther Rosenman. Tauba’s family emigrated from Russia to Belgium in 1906, and first lived at Vandenpeereboomstraat 34 in Borgerhout, but then changed addresses frequently before fleeing to London, the United Kingdom, upon the outbreak the First World War. Upon ...

Edith Hamberg (later Edith Hamberg Tarcov, 1919-1990) was born on 23 October 1919 in Hannover, Germany to Sally (1887-1942?) and Minna (née Braunsberg, 1889-1943?) Hamberg. She had one sister, Margot (later Margot Ward, b.1924). Her father was a World War I veteran. Prior to her emigration from Germany, Edith was an active Zionist and worked at Jewish orphanages in Hannover and Kassel. She emigrated ...

Reel 11: (1945) Eupen, Belgium; Duren, Germany Aachen in ruins. Sign, "Deutsch Pilsener Aus Der Brauerei Decker Aachen." [Fedeli reports moving to Eilendorf, Germany through Aachen, Siegfried Line, and Duren in mid-March 1945 and then to Euskirchen.] Army trucks on the road. VAR shots of another city in ruins, a dead horse lies in the street. More ruins, planes fly overhead. Tanks and trucks, soldiers. ...

Max Dobriner (later Geoffrey Dickson) was born on March 16, 1926, in Deutsch Krone, Germany (Walcz, Poland), to Julius and Hertha Cohn Dobriner. Max had two older brothers, Robert, born in. 1921, and Herbert, born in 1924. They were an observant Jewish family. In January 1933, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. By July, the Nazi dictatorship was firmly in place and restrictive Jewish policies ...

The Luba Mendelsberg letters is comprised of correspondence collected by Luba and her husband Meyer while they were living in New York City in the years immediately following World War II. The letters are primarily from Luba’s nephew, Samuel Krum, written between 1946 and 1954 and describe life for Jewish refugee families in post-war Warsaw, the struggle to obtain visas to emigrate from Poland, and ...