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The collection contains seven photos of the Dreyfuss-Isenberg family and a prayer card commemorating rescuer Yvonne Veys as well as seven letters and two cards. Five letters and perhaps the two cards were sent by the Dreyfuss family, after they had moved to Leuven, to their former next-door neighbours, the Perck family. Two other letters were sent by the Dreyfuss family, while detained at the Dossin ...

Laurence Rees has spent nearly 20 years meeting people who were tested to the extreme during World War II. He has come face-to-face with rapists, mass murderers, even cannibals, but he has also met courageous individuals who are an inspiration to us all. Here he presents 35 of his most electrifying encounters, from Estera Frenkiel, a young Jewish woman given the chance to save ten fellow Jews from ...

The role of the police has, from its beginnings, been ambiguous, even janus-faced. This volume focusses on one of its controversial aspects by showing how the police have been utilized in the past by regimes in Europe, the USA and the British Empire to check political dissent and social unrest. By shedding new light on policing continuities in the twentieth century, it questions the compatibility of ...

"A collection of authoritative and often controversial essays that will hold the attention of even the most informed reader. This fascinating book covers such important and relevant topics as Churchill and the Secret Services, ULTRA codebreaking and Soviet espionage and much more." -- "Select bibliography [of M.R.D. Foot's works]": pages 243-249. xxv, 262 pages ; 24 cm

"Within the vast network of Nazi camps, Stutthof may be the least known beyond Poland. This book is the first scholarly publication in English to break the silence of Stutthof, where 120,000 people were interned and at least 65,000 perished. A Nazi Camp Near Danzig offers an overview of Stutthof's history. It also explores Danzig's significance in promoting the cult of German nationalism which led ...