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Contains records of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Includes reports, photographs, newspaper clippings, speeches and various articles relating to the mission of the “division de secours;” aid to POWs during World War II, POW camps in Germany, and correspondence with Carl Jacob Burckhardt, Roger Gallopin, Max Huber, Albert Lombard, Robert Macduff, Heinrich Zangger, and others. The ...

The commanding general of the Allied Air Forces of the Southwest Pacific wrote a personal report, using as his framework the diary he kept throughout the war years. General Kenney was probably the most popular commander of American forces during World War Il, and readers will understand why his leadership and humanity inspired such courage and loyalty among the fliers of the Fifth and Thirteenth Air ...

Documentation of the Weltverband der Judishen Studentenschaft (World Association of Jewish Students) in Vienna, 1924-1937
 
 The Weltverband der Judishen Studentenschaft was an umbrella organization that brought together Landesverbaende (national unions) of Jewish students. The Association held congresses and meetings of its administrative bodies in various places in Europe.
 
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"An enthralling work of popular history that vividly resurrects the web of everyday Germans who resisted Nazi rule. Nazi Germany is remembered as a nation of willing fanatics. But beneath the surface, countless ordinary, everyday Germans actively resisted Hitler. Some passed industrial secrets to Allied spies. Some forged passports to help Jews escape the Reich. For others, resistance was as simple ...

Contains seven proclamations regarding the boycott of German products and the Transfer Agreements, printed in Palestine; undated, likely 1930s. Includes propaganda and publicity handbills regarding the ban which the Yishuv imposed on German products. The proclamations are (in translation): "Begone German products!", advertisement for Velux razor blades made in Switzerland which "declared that it will ...

Anti-Jewish, anti-Communist caricature depicting a Jewish man whispering to Joseph Stalin. This cartoon was likely distributed by anti-Soviet partisans in Soviet-controlled Lithuania in approximately 1947. The image depicts a Jewish man with stereotypical features behind Stalin who is in a military uniform and blows soap bubbles full of anti-Communist slogans. The inclusion of the Jew reinforces war-time ...

Documentation of the "Hebrew" Gymnasium, the middle and high school of the Association for the Advancement of the Arts and Science among the Jews
 
 In the collection there is historical information regarding the establishment of the high school, the elementary school and the nursery school; there are fliers from the Riga Council Education Department concerning the school's activities; orders ...

Mayor (polgármester) was the leading official of the towns and cities in Hungary. The mayor was elected by the Municipal Committee and his powers were regulated by the statutes created by the Committee as well as by Act XXI of 1886 (73. §.) The scope of authority of the Mayor was significantly broadened by Act XXX of 1930, which handed over most of the functions of the City Council to the Mayor’s Office. ...

The collection holds the records of the Mayor, the head of the administration of the town of Nagykőrös between 1872 and 1950. Records from the years 1938-1944 include, but not limited to documents concerning the implementation of Jewish Laws and other antisemitic bureaucratic procedures, including the withdrawal of trade licences and permits, quitting rental agreements of Jews, exclusion of Jews from ...

Siegfried Halbreich (1909-2008) was born in Dziedzice, in the Upper Silesia region of Poland. After his graduation from high school, he served briefly in the Polish Army from 1930-1932, before attending the University of Krakow to become a pharmacist. He practiced pharmacy in Katowice, Poland from 1935-1939 before the outbreak of World War II. At the outbreak of war, Halbreich was drafted back into ...