Lit. opg. 301 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania http://www.inshr-ew.ro/ro/

"Through a selection of primary and secondary sources ... examines the uses of technology during the Holocaust and the specific ways in which scientists, architects, medical professionals, businessmen, and engineers participated in the planning and operation of the concentration and extermination camps that were the foundation of the "final solution""--Page 4 of cover. Includes bibliographical references ...

Aandacht voor de totstandkoming van overheidsarchitectuur, de opvattingen bij de rijksoverheid over de eigen bouwopgave en wie als ontwerpers daarin een rol speelden. De rode draad daarbij wordt gevormd door de geschiedenis van de organisaties waarbinnen het rijksbouwen vorm kreeg. Met lit. opg. en index.-Samenvatting in het Duits, Engels en Frans. 765 p. : illustrations ; 25 cm

"How Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model 'Aryan' society in Norway during World War II"-- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-298) and index. x, 313 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm

This 2006 collection examines the urban spaces of Berlin and Washington and provides a comparative cultural history of two eminent nation-states in the modern era. Each of the cities has assumed, at times, a mythical quality and they have been seen as collective symbols, with ambitions and contradictions that mirror the nation-states they represent. Such issues such stand in the centre of this volume. ...

""What are we to make of those cultural figures, many with significant international reputations, who tried to find accommodation with the Nazi regime?" Jonathan Petropoulos asks in this exploration of some of the most acute moral questions of the Third Reich. In his nuanced analysis of prominent German artists, architects, composers, film directors, painters, and writers who rejected exile, choosing ...

Het leven van Richard Schoemaker is niet in een paar woorden te vatten: hij stierf in 1942 als verzetsheld, maar was ook KNIL-militair, olympisch sporter, architect en hoogleraar. Dit rijke maar te vroeg beëindigde leven viel samen met de hoogtijdagen van het kolonialisme: Schoemaker was lid van de eerste gemeenteraad van Bandoeng en was de eerste hoogleraar bouwkunde aan de eerste Technische Hoogeschool ...

From around the world, whether for New York City's 9/11 Memorial, at exhibits devoted to the arts of Holocaust memory, or throughout Norway's memorial process for the murders at Utøya, James E. Young has been called on to help guide the grief stricken and survivors in how to mark their losses. This poignant, beautifully written collection of essays offers personal and professional considerations of ...

"A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's return to memoir, a tale of intellectual coming-of-age on three continents, published in tandem with his classic work of Holocaust literature, When Memory Comes Forty years after his acclaimed, poignant first memoir, Friedlander returns with WHEN MEMORY COMES: THE LATER YEARS, bridging the gap between the ordeals of his childhood and his present-day towering reputation ...

Scope and content: "Rome underwent a spectacular transformation under Fascist rule; a transformation that was visual and topographical but also deeply symbolic. The 'third Rome' that Mussolini envisioned and sought to realise in the 1920s and 1930s was partly a new city, expanding in all directions from the historic centre, and partly a new vision for an ideal city that emerged from within a cityscape ...

Contact Kazerne Dossin Documentation Centre: archives@kazernedossin.eu

Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania http://www.inshr-ew.ro/ro/

At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and unstaunchable war in which millions have died. And yet, despite its epic proportions, it has received little sustained media attention. In this deeply reported book, Jason Stearns vividly tells the story of this misunderstood conflict through the experiences ...

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Alongside other types of mass atrocities, genocide has received extensive scholarly, policy, and practitioner attention. Missing, however, is the contribution of economists to better understand and prevent such crimes. This edited collection by 41 accomplished scholars examines economic aspects of genocides, other mass atrocities, and their prevention. Chapters include numerous case studies (e.g., ...

In German.

The Lehman family papers document the experience of Arthur Lehmann and his son, Richard, through their imprisonment at the Ferramonti concentration camp in southern Italy, and later as refugees in Fort Ontario. Included in the papers is Arthur’s handwritten memoir, entitled "Scenes of Life in Ferramonti." Another memoir, from Ruth Gruber, titled "I Went to the Soviet Arctic", is also in the papers. ...

The “History of Jewish Construction and Architectural Activity in Thessaloniki” is a project implemented by the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki with the help of the Municipality of Thessaloniki.

Fonds consists of: a scrapbook of photos and Second World War / Holocaust letters outlining the family history and deportations.

Ellen (Maexie) Regenstreif Illich (1901-1965) came from a family of converted Sephardic Jews who had settled in Germany. Her industrialist father, Fritz (Pucki) Regenstreif (1868-1941), had a lumber business in Bosnia where he owned a sawmill at Zavidovic and an Art Nouveau villa on the outskirts of Vienna in Pötzleinsdorf built by Friedrich Ohmann. Piero Ilic (1890-1942) came from a landed family ...

In 1961 the Union des déportés juifs de Belgique – Vereniging van Joodse Weggevoerden in België (UDJB) [Association of Jewish Deportees of Belgium], presided by Maurice Pioro, launched the idea for the creation of a national memorial dedicated to Jews from Belgium who perished during the Holocaust. As the Dossin barracks in Mechelen, where the former SS-Sammellager had been located, were still being ...

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 ...