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Documentation of the Reichsministerium fuer Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung (Reich Ministry of Science, Education and Public Education), Germany, 1933-1945

Roman Vishniac was born in 1897 in St. Petersburg, Russia and was educated in the Universities of Moscow and Berlin. From 1933 to 1939, he traveled throughout eastern Europe--Russia, Poland, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, and Lithuania--photographing Jewish communities. He was arrested and imprisoned repeatedly by police who suspected him of photographing Jews. Of the sixteen thousand images he took, two ...

The fonds of the Oberlandrat of Kroměříž 1939-1940 contain these documents concerning Jewish matters and Aryanization specifically. Amendment to status of Jews 1940; Concentration of Jewish registers in Prague 1939; Acknowledging domicile right for Jews 1940; Half-Jews in autonomous offices 1940; Prohibition of acceptance of German pupils at Jewish private apprentice training colleges 1939; Prohibition ...

Holocaust: Religious and Philosophical Implications is an anthology specifically designed for use as a textbook for courses on the Holocaust in universities and adult study groups. It is a compilation of what are now "classic" pieces in the voluminous literature on the Holocaust - pieces by Raul Hilberg, Hannah Arendt, Primo Levi, George Steiner, Richard Rubenstein and Irving Greenberg - all organized ...

Session 113. Attorney General Hausner argues to the Judges that the precedents set prior to the Eichmann Trial can be used to indict Eichmann without charges of conspiracy, and rather his actions should be seen as corroboration with conspiracy (duplicate footage from Tape 2226). 00:07:11 Session 113 is adjourned, the Judges leave. Various shots of the crowd leaving the courtroom.

Includes bibliographical references (page 13). 109 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Examines the scope of research on Jewish history and culture carried out in Nazi Germany during 1933-45, and in Austria after the "Anschluss" (1938). Discusses antisemitic research carried out at the universities, where thousands of antisemitic doctoral theses were written, and describes the pseudo-scientific activities of non-academic institutions, such as the Institut zum Studium der Judenfrage in ...

Berlin street scenes with posters affixed to a pillar; bicycles (very brief). Probably Charlottenburg district where the Vishniac family lived on Pariserstrasse.

Born in Russia in 1897, Roman Vishniac was a biologist by training, having earned a doctorate in zoology and a medical degree from Moscow universities and a doctorate in Oriental art from the University of Berlin. For many years he was prevented from working in any of those fields because of war, revolution and political persecution. He instead pursued a career in microphotography, the photographing ...

"Gisella Perl's memoir is an extraordinarily candid account of women's extreme efforts to survive Auschwitz. Her story individualizes and, therefore, humanizes a victim of mass dehumanization. Perl contributes to our understanding og the gendered Nazi policies and practices targeting Jewish women as racially poisonous. Perl's memoir significantly includes the Nazis' Roma victims as well as Nazi women ...

Consists of a mimeographed transcript of a speech given by Eva Lips, a German-Jewish refugee from Cologne, Germany, at Christ Church in New York City on November 14, 1936. In the speech, she describes her impression of Hitler prior to 1933, and the ways in which she and her husband, University of Leipzig anthropologist Dr. Julius Lips, were persecuted after 1933. She also describes the confiscation ...

A study written during World War II by Ringelblum, historian and archivist of the Warsaw ghetto who was killed by the Germans in 1944, published here for the first time in Polish. Surveys Polish-Jewish relations before 1939 - the antisemitic activities of right-wing parties and organizations, especially in the universities. At the outbreak of war, the fact that Poles and Jews fought side by side against ...