The U.S. Army and World War II is an anthology of selected papers from three international conferences held in 1990, 1992, and 1994 on the Army's role in the war. Taking the best from those meetings, Judith L. Bellafaire has organized the various presentations into four thematic categories--prewar planning, the home front, the European theater, and the Asian-Pacific theaters--reflecting the diversity ...

Abstract: Male-male sexual violence during the Holocaust is under-researched. Despite being a widespread occurrence in the Nazi concentration camps, very few accounts from primary sources are available of the sexual violence perpetrated against the Piepel: male Jewish children, adolescents, and young adults, by male Kapos or senior prisoner functionaries. Until now this phenomenon has been understood ...

M.52.DAKherO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Kherson Region
 
 History of the Archives:
 
 The special archival committee of the Kherson district was established in April 1922, which was subordinate to the archival committee of the Mykolaiv sub-division. The committee became subordinate to the archival committee of the Odessa sub-division in 1922. In November 1925 ...

Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality has been one of the most influential books of the last two decades. It has had an enormous impact on cultural studies and work across many disciplines on gender, sexuality, and the body. Bringing a new set of questions to this key work, Ann Laura Stoler examines volume one of History of Sexuality in an unexplored light. She asks why there has been such a muted ...

Description of the files are available on IDEA ALM system at Yad Vashem Archives reading room

Abstract: The German military, Red Army, and partisans inflicted a massive amount of sexual violence onto unarmed civilians on the eastern front during World War II. Under the German occupation, civilians were driven into prostitutional relationships and prostitution, which caused widespread venereal disease. The Germans established military brothels and forced females to serve, indirectly by starvation ...

M.40 - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Central Archives in Moscow, 1939-1945
 
 Official documentation from the Archives in Moscow, not including documentation from the State Archive of the Russian Federation which is located in a separate Records Group: Yad Vashem Archives M.46.
 
 Records Group M.40 is divided into subsections according to the archive of origin ...

Based on the court records of 1500 men accused of homosexual conduct from the Viennese Civil Courts and Military Courts from Austria under National Socialist rule, a sample of 434 men was selected randomly and analyzed quantitatively. The article aims to provide the most comprehensive survey hitherto of the self-perceptions of male homosexuals and of the ways they were perceived by others in that period. ...

Op 7 maart 1943 gaan de geïnterviewde en haar vriendin en jaargenoot met valse papieren in de trein naar Parijs. De geïnterviewde zal daar haar broer ontmoeten die een centrale rol speelt in het verzet. Die zelfde nacht doen de Duitsers een inval in het hotel waar de vrouwen verblijven. Ze worden gevangen genomen en afgevoerd naar de gevangenis van Fresnes en later Romainville. Dan worden ze op transport ...

Introduction / Jonathan C. Friedman. - PART I. The Nazi Takeover and Persecution in Hitler's Reich to 1939. 1. The Jewish communities of Europe on the eve of World War II / Jonathan C. Friedman. - 2. European antisemitism before the Holocaust and the roots of Nazism / William Brustein. - 3. Germany and the Armenian genocide of 1915-17 / Hans-Lukas Kieser. - 4. Eugenics, race hygiene, and the Holocaust: ...

USHMM RG-31.017M

Description of most of the files are available on IDEA ALM system at Yad Vashem Archives reading room and on the Yad Vashem website

M.52.DARO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Rivne Region
 
 History of the Archives
 
 The archives was established in March 1940 as the historical archives of the region, and as of 1941 it was called the State Archives of the Rovno Region. The material for the archives was collected gradually. At the start, the archives received documents from local institutions and ...

In the collection there are files from the following regional archives in Ukraine: the State Archive in the Lvov region, the State Archive in the Ivano-Frankovsk region, the State Archive in the Chervovtsy region, the State Archive in the Khmelnitskiy region, the State Archive in the Vinnitsa region, the State Archive in the Kiev region, the State Archive in the Rovno region, the State Archive in the ...

M.52 - Documentation from Regional Archives in Ukraine, 1934-1966
 
 In the Record Group there are files from the following regional archives in Ukraine: 
 the State Archive in the Lvov region, the State Archive in the Ivano-Frankovsk region, the State Archive in the Chervovtsy region, the State Archive in the Khmelnitskiy region, the State Archive in the Vinnitsa region, the State Archive ...

O.75: Letters and postcards from the Holocaust period or regarding the Holocaust
 
 In the Record Group are personal letters collected by Yad Vashem since its establishment. The letters were written before, during and after the Holocaust period in the Nazi occupied countries - in ghettos, camps and hiding places, and in the countries to which the Jewish refugees from Europe succeeded in escaping ...

Geïnterviewde 01 is kind van een Nederlandse militair en een Indonesische moeder, verwekt na de koloniale oorlog 1946-1949 in Indonesië. De geïnterviewde is geboren in Semarang, Java. De moeder werkt in de kazerne in de keuken en als wasvrouw. De vader van de geinterviewde is gelegerd in de buurt van Semarang als Nederlandse militair. Als de moeder na een jaar in verwachting raakt, vertrekt zij uit ...

Census of the Jews of Budapest, 1941
 
 The historical background to the Hungarian census:
 In January-February 1941 a national population census was conducted in Hungary in accordance with Law No. 30, "The 1941 Census", enacted in 1940.
 By law a census should be conducted in every city and town throughout Hungary in the apartments of the residents or their houses.
 The Budapest ...

Some cases contain registration materials in the form of lists of ghetto prisoners and labor camps, prisoners in the workers' columns, lists of people for food aid, etc., 1942-1943. In particular, this is information about the place of residence and the composition of Jewish families, as well as information on the age of ghetto prisoners and the profession of adult family members [inventory 3, files ...

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Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

1. De Dommel vanaf de Belgische grens tot aan de Vughterbrug te 's-Hertogenbosch.

In 1931 verhuisde het jonge gezin van het huis De Rietvink in de stad naar de nieuw gebouwde villa De Heihoef aan de Aalsterweg, naast de boerderij Voorbeek. In 1953 werd het huis De Heihoef, met bijbehorende grond, verkocht aan N.V. Philips. Tijdelijke vervangende woonruimte werd gevonden in het pand Parklaan 22 te Eindhoven. Wel deed zich de behoefte gevoelen aan opslagruimte voor een gedeelte van ...