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Recommendations. To the Nigerian government and security forces -- To religious and community leaders, at national, state and local levels. -- The conflict in Plateau State. -- The conflict in Yelwa. Background -- Violent conflict in Yelwa -- Internal displacement. -- The government's response to the violence in Plateau State. The state of emergency -- Peace initiatives -- Commissions of inquiry -- ...

"In this gripping revisionist history of Italy's role in the Holocaust, Simon Levis Sullam presents an unforgettable account of how ordinary Italians actively participated in the deportation of Italy's Jews between 1943 and 1945, when Mussolini's collaborationist republic was under German occupation. While most historians have long described Italians as relatively protective of Jews during this time, ...

Recommendations -- Background -- Mounting political tensions and arrests in February and March -- Escalating violence and repression after March 11 -- The international response -- Acknowledgements. "May 2007." 37 pages ; 28 cm.

Discusses the persecution of Jews in Italy during World War II, noting that 8,500 Jews were deported, mostly to Auschwitz. During the nine-month Nazi occupation of Rome, which began in September 1943, 2,000 Jews were deported, 1,800 of whom did not survive. Anti-Jewish persecution was accepted by Italians and tolerated during the entire period of the war. There was no protest against the adoption of ...

Recommendations: For the pre-election period -- For the post-election period. -- Methods. -- Background. -- Abuses against street children. Police and military abuse - Physical abuse - Extortion - Sexual abuse of girls - Police misuse of street children - Arbitrary arrests and roundups - Special protection unit of the police - Child labor - Physical abuse by adults and older street children - Sexual ...

Discusses the deportation of Jews from Belgium to concentration camps during World War II, focusing on a comparison with the procedures in France. In France the first deportations took place already in spring 1942, urged by the military authorities in Paris who wished that reprisals for the activities of the French resistance should occur in the East rather than in France. In Belgium, the authorities ...

The pogrom in November 1938 was not due to increasing antisemitism in the German population but to a well-organized plan arranged by the Nazi regime in order to demonstrate power and create a radical political atmosphere. The mobilization of SA members from all sections of the party for the pogrom was partly meant to overcome internal conflicts. The perpetrators acted under the rules of group dynamics ...

"Following periods of mass atrocity and oppression, states are faced with a question of critical importance in the transition to democracy: how to offer redress to victims of the old regime without perpetuating cycles of revenge. Traditionally, balance has been restored through arrests, trials, and punishment, but in the last three decades, more than twenty countries have opted to have a truth commission ...

Describes the organization and functions of the sections of the Gestapo concerned with Jewish matters in the Düsseldorf district - i.e. in Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen, Krefeld, Mönchengladbach, Wuppertal, and smaller towns. Most of the officials were policemen who were chosen on the basis of vocational competence rather than political orientation; their methods included intimidation, but hardly ...

Pp. 11-22 survey the history of Jews in Salonika from the ancient period to the 20th century. Pp. 23-39 discuss the Nazi period. Between April 1941-October 1944 Salonika was occupied by the German army. Anti-Jewish measures against the 49,000 local Jews began with arrests of Jewish notables, confiscation of apartments and the Jewish hospital, and the closing of the three Jewish newspapers. In April-May ...

Pp. 17-73 contain the author's diary-like notes, which he gave to a friend for safekeeping before his deportation to Auschwitz, where he perished in the gas chambers. He discusses the progression of the war, German atrocities against both Jews and non-Jews in the Netherlands, Dutch solidarity with the Jews, the arrests and deportations, and conditions in Westerbork. Reflects on the brutality of the ...