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William Bostwick Curtis, III, was in the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA, during the Second World War. He had been a spy behind enemy lines earlier in the war and his specialty was ordinance. Bill was the official army photographer as the first wave of US Army entered Nordhausen and, earlier, possibly Buchenwald. His rank was 1st Lieutenant at that time, but he remained in the army and eventually retired ...

Includes a postcard from Szloma Erlich in the Łódź ghetto to her sister's family in the U.S. (Brooklyn address, but forwarded to New Jersey), dated 1941. Card written in German, but with Yiddish sentence across top. Pleads for them to send more packages with food, as their mother is elderly and quite weak, and wonders why they haven't responded to the cards she had previously sent. Also includes a ...

Theodor Alexandrovich Sirkis (1913-1997) was born in a Black Sea port town near Odessa (Kyastitsa?). His wife, Frida Berkovna Gore (1920-1976) was born in Orhei, a small town near Kishinev (Chișinău). They met in Iasi in 1939 while studying medicine at the university. In November 1941 the family was evacuated from Moldova to Salsk (Rostov oblast) and Tyulkubas (Kazakhstan). Theodor, Frida, and Frida’s ...

Info from the MOT story card: Even more horrible than the fate of fugitives from war is the lot of the ever increasing army of fugitives from Nazi terror. Not just Jews, but all who do not agree with Nazi doctrines are victims. Those who escape the concentration camp are hounded from land to land by Hitler's machinations. But his very tactics were to unite the democracies in protest, and in affirmation ...

Contains two death announcements for father and son, Fedde and Albert Gozen Van Terwisga, who were not Jewish but but imprisoned in Herzogenbusch in the Netherlands and then deported to the Dachau concentration camp. Family death announcements stating Albert "died February 9, 1945" and Fedde "died" March 5, 1945, both at the Dachau concentration camp, victims of Nazism.

We all rely on the apparent accuracy and objectivity of maps, but often do not see the very process of mapping as political. Maps and Politics asks whether bias-free cartography is possible and demonstrates that maps are not straightforward texts, but contain political and politicizing subtexts that need to be read with care. Jeremy Black examines various issues, such as ethnicity, the role of socio-economic ...

The Ruth Oppenheim memoirs contains a two memoirs. One entitled "The Sewing Kit," relating to experiences in Nazi Germany prior her family's immigration to the United States in 1940, and an article entitled "Kristallnacht: How It Was," which recalls her experience during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938.

Janusz Kwiek is crowned "King of the Gypsies" in an outdoor ceremony before a large crowd of onlookers. He wears a crown and receives a blessing from an Eastern orthodox (?) priest. A group of Roma sing a song in celebration.

A huge crowd gathered on Horst Wessel Platz in Berlin sings folk songs. The narrator says that the event, and others like it, was organized by a Berlin radio station. The camera focuses on a choir of Hitler Youth and League of German Girls members singing. The crowd then whistles the tune.