[Repr.]. XII, 531 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Rwanda and Bosnia both experienced mass violence in the early 1990s. Less than ten years later, Rwandans surprisingly elected the world's highest level of women to parliament. In Bosnia, women launched thousands of community organizations that became spaces for informal political participation. The political mobilization of women in both countries complicates the popular image of women as merely the ...

"Just three days after the Wehrmacht launched Operation Barbarossa, the Central Committee of the Kazakh Communist Party convened its fifth plenary session in the Central Asian city of Almaty. Declaring a state of emergency in response to this "treacherous attack by German fascism," the plenum called on the local population to support the Soviet war effort. From 1941 to 1945, hundreds of thousands of ...

VI, 82 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject: Introduction: mobilization and social movements in the south : the challenges of inclusive governance / Lisa Thompson and Chris Tapscott. - Social movements and rights claims : the case of action groups in the Niger Delta / Elosa E. Osaghae. - Why do garment workers in Bangladesh fail to mobilize? / Simeen Mahmud. - Mobilization through litigation : claiming health rights on asbestos issues ...

This video contains three films of Leeuwarden from the collections of the Frisian Film Archive. 00:33:47 to 00:43:19 - Filmed before World War II. Private residences and passing pedestrians. Cars and bicycles sporadically dot the streets. Man smokes a cigarette, conversing with a female companion on a nearby bench. A middle-aged woman sweeps her front porch; a younger woman polishes a door-handle. ...

"During World War II, the United States helped vanquish the Axis powers by converting its enormous economic capacities into military might. Producing nearly two-thirds of all the munitions used by Allied forces, American industry became what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called 'the arsenal of democracy.' Crucial in this effort were business leaders. Some of these captains of industry went to Washington ...

Titel op voortitelblad: Beiträge zur Militär- und Kriegsgeschichte. 2 dl. : ill., krt. ; 25 cm.

De heer De Jong is zestien jaar bij het begin van de oorlog. Zijn vader is schipper. Moeder is huisvrouw met een sociale rol in een buurt vol armoede en werkeloosheid. De Jong zit op de R.K. Mulo en gaat daarna werken bij de Rijksverzekeringsbank. Een van zijn zusjes is bellemeisje bij een dokter, wiens praktijk door een bom op 17 juli 1943 wordt getroffen. Dat zusje komt om en wordt teruggevonden ...

Leaflet, "Speak Out - Shall it be War or Peace?...No Convoy Rally" Los Angeles; American Peace Mobilization, 1941.

Contains drafts and correspondence regarding medical services, mobilization of Jewish dentists, and payments for confiscated dental equipment of Jewish dentists. Includes name lists of doctors sent to Thrace and Macedonia and lists of people mobilized to the health services (including mobilized Jewish doctors).

Îndrumătorul Arhivei Naţionale a Republicii Moldova (partea II-a, 1918 – începutul secolului XXI, ediţia a II-a, revăzută şi completată). Chişinău, 2012: 49

Met lit. opg. 237 p., [8] p. pl : ill. ; 23 cm.

Testimony, three pages, manuscript, recounting experiences in Lugansk, Ukraine, and Kiev, after German invasion, including murder of his family, mobilization in Red Army, capture, passing himself as Muslim rather than Jew, work as forced agricultural laborer. Written in 1993.

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

1e dr. 111 p. : ill., foto's. ; 29 cm

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

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 731, Part 1. Release date, 12/26/1938. German military power. Mobilization in Austria. Schuschnigg gives weak Nazi salute. Mobilization in Sudetenland, President Benes. digging trenches; country folk; woman with gas mask and baby. Chamberlain goes to Munich while the English drill and prepare for war. Chamberlain returns with "settlement of Czech problem". Smashed windows ...

Anyone who asks about forced labor in Hitler's Europe has to talk about the Organization Todt (OT). As the largest construction organization in the Nazi state, it carried out important military work in all German-occupied areas and employed local workers and companies on a large scale. How did this mobilization succeed? How did the incentives relate to coercion, what were the working and living conditions? ...