Shmuel Rahamin Mizrahi was born in 1920, in the Macedonian region of Yugoslavia. His parents were Rahamin and Rena, and Shmuel had four brothers and sisters. As a young man, Shmuel was active with the communist party and Hashomer Hatzair, a Zionist youth movement that taught Jews skills such as farming and other types of work that would be useful when Jews resettled Israel. On April 6, 1941, Germany ...

Frank Capra was an Italian American film director, producer, and writer born in Italy and raised in Los Angeles from the age of five. Capra became one of America's most influential directors during the 1930s, winning three Academy Awards for Best Director from six nominations, along with three other Oscar wins from nine nominations in other categories. Among his leading films were "It Happened One ...

Mandil Family photograph collection consists of pre-war and post-war photographs of the Mandil family, Konfino family, and the Ben-Yosif family all of Yugoslavia, as well as the Veseli family of Krujë, Albania. The photographs of the Mandil family include photographs of Gavra and Irena Mandil used as advertisement for the family’s photograph studio including a photograph of the Jewish children standing ...

"During World War II, three distinct forces opposed the Allies: Germany, Italy, and Japan. Few areas of the world experienced domination by more than a single one of these, but southeastern France - the region popularly known as the Riviera or Cote d'Azur - was one. Not only did inhabitants suffer through Italian Fascism and German Nazism but also under a third hardship at times even more oppressive: ...

"As the first mass movement of the radical right to assume power in the wake of World War I, Italian Fascism became the model and inspiration for violent anti-democratic and anti-socialist forces that swept Europe between 1919 and 1945. In this volume Marla S. Stone provides an essential introduction to the rise and fall of Benito Mussolini's Fascist dictatorship. Drawing on the most recent historical ...

Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish ...

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Copyright Holder: United Nations Archives and Records Management Section

Consists of one memoir, in Hebrew, written by Emanuel Ascarelli (1919-1999), originally of Bologna, Italy. In the memoir, Emanuel describes his family history and his experiences in the Jewish Brigade.

Records were created by Chetnik military units and authorities in Herzegovina from 1941 to 1945. Chetnik groups were involved in civil war against Communist Partisans and acted as collaborators of German and Italian forces. Includes reports and orders of Chetnik HQ for eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, military action information, arrests, reports about political situation in Herzegovina, status of Chetnik ...

Correspondence (8 letters) from Gemma Vitale Servadio, written to friends, family and an attorney, June 1944. Servadio sent these letters from the Fossoli internment camp, after she and her mother, Nina Levi Vitale, were arrested, and prior to their deportation to Auschwitz. Collection also contains the text of a lecture given by Servadio’s brother, Col. Massimo Adolfo Vitale, in 1947, after he observed ...

Documentation created by the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia and Ustasha and domobran (militia) military units in the period 1941-1945. Contains reports of Ministries of the Independent State of Croatia regarding political and military circumstances, reports of Italian military missions and their deployment, details about policies and orders, conflicts with Chetnik forces, reports of ...

The papers consist of five photographs of Miroslav (Fred) Schiller, his friends, and fellow members of a jazz band; identification cards; visas; applications; and a bill passed by the United States House of Representatives for the relief of Fred Schiller.

The collection is thematically focused on socially critical and committed art created between the two world wars. The central part of the collection consists of works of art created during the Second World War: Partisan prints, drawings, paintings, sketches, etc. by camp inmates from mainly Italian, but also German concentration camps, prisoner-of-war camps and the prisons of the occupying forces. ...

Miroslav (Fred) Schiller was born on Jan. 3, 1910 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia). He became a jazz musician and traveled throughout Europe and the Mediterranean. He returned to Zagreb to witness the beginnings of the Nazi rise to power. Shortly after, he fled to Split, Yugoslavia (now Croatia) which was in the Italian zone of occupation. Because they were in danger of deportation, his parents ...

Copyright Holder: Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine

(Publisher-supplied data) Based upon extensive archival material, this is a pioneering study of the impact of the famine that occurred in Greece during its occupation by German, Italian and Bulgarian forces in 1941 and 1942. Violetta Hionidou examines the politics of the food crisis, focusing on the famine's demographics and the effectiveness of relief operations. Her interdisciplinary approach combines ...

Wie sahen deutsche und italienische Soldaten den Krieg, das Töten, ihre Gegner, ihre Verbündeten, ihre Führung, die Judenvernichtung? Ein internationales Forscherteam ist diesen Fragen erstmals auf Grundlage von mehr als 150.000 Seiten Abhörprotokollen nachgegangen, die britische und amerikanische Nachrichtendienste während des Zweiten Weltkriegs erstellt haben eine einzigartige Sicht auf die ...

Bestandsbeschreibung Behördengeschichte Im Zuge des Friedensvertrages der Konfliktparteien des Bosnienkrieges am 21.11.1995 (Dayton Abkommen) stimmten die Konfliktparteien der Entsendung einer multinationalen Truppe unter NATO-Kommando, der IFOR (Implementation Force), zu. Diese sollte die Einhaltung der im Friedensvertrag aufgeführten Übereinkünfte überwachen. Aufgabe der IFOR-Truppen waren die Entmilitarisierung ...

Documents, datebooks, correspondence, V-mails, photograph albums, loose photos, maps, scrip, souvenir materials (including a "Heidelberg" letter opener), notebooks, reparations and restitution papers related to Irving Gluck and his family; also includes a wooden box made by a German POW who he was guarding; Irving Gluck's embroidered tefillin pouch and pair of tefillin, a scroll of Esther, dog tags, ...

Castle Films was started in 1924 by Eugene W. Castle, the former Pacific Coast film editor at Fox Movietone News. Castle became a successful producer of industrial and advertising short subjects. Castle began compiling shorts, travelogues and newsreels for use in schools. The lure of the home movie market proved lucrative for Castle. In 1936, they became one of the first home movie companies to actually ...

Pp. 364-368, "Die 'Entjudung' Griechenlands", describe difficulties met by the German occupying forces in their attempt to incite the Greek population against the Jews. In the Italian zone, no antisemitic laws were enforced. In other parts of Greece, the fascist E.E.E. party (the National Union of Greece) was suppressed by the dictator Ioannis Metaxas. However, after 1942 many Jews were dispatched ...

Louis "Lou" Pechi was born as Ljubomir Peći on August 10, 1934, in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia) to Stjepan Peći and Piroška Sidon Peći. He was an only child, and was called "Lubo." His father, whom Lubo called "Kolega" was an import-export customs broker and traveled frequently. In April 1941, Stjepan reported for military service, while Piroška and Lubo went to Belgrade to visit her father. They ...

"From the invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 through to the waning months of the Second World War in 1945, Fascist Italy was at war. This Fascist decade of war comprised an uninterrupted stretch of military and political engagements in which Italian military forces were involved in Abyssinia, Spain, Albania, France, Greece, the Soviet Union, North Africa and the Middle East. As a junior partner to Nazi Germany, ...