Three documents concerning donations for European Jewry, during World War II and later. Palestine, dated 1943-1948. Includes a donation card for child refugees, printed on behalf of the Civil Guard, Tel-Aviv, Hanukkah, [1943]; a printed letter to school children in Tel-Aviv, calling them to assist in collection of clothes and donations for Jewish refugees in Russia; a printed card on behalf of "HaMifal ...

"Grass is a powerful anti-war graphic novel, offering up firsthand the life story of a Korean girl named Okseon Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the second World War - a disputed chapter in 20th century Asian history. Beginning in Lee's childhood, Grass shows the leadup to World War II from a child's vulnerable perspective, detailing how one person experienced ...

"This book contains the voices of twelve Japanese military comfort girls-women. ... This book was written by a research team of 17 members who came together as a group on May 19, 2002."--Page ix. "Funded by the Korean Council for Justice & Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan"--Title page verso. xxx, 301 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.

"In his six years as the United Nations special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak was tasked with reviewing thousands of complaints of torture and detention, investigating facts and circumstances surrounding the global practice of torture, and drawing up recommendations aimed at combating the practice. Now, in Torture, readers can get a first hand glimpse of how modern-day torture is investigated ...

Decision to create a commission to investigate atrocities and damage caused by the German Fascist invaders to state-owned enterprises and institutions, collective farms and residents of Tiraspol; List of citizens forcibly driven into slavery during the flight of the Germans; the decisions of the executive committee to commemorate more than 1,000 Soviet citizens arrested by the Romanian occupiers for ...

Introduction: Beyond the Canon: History in a Globalizing World / S. Stuurman & M. Grever. - PART 1: THE FRAMING OF HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE Who Needs a Canon? / P. Seixas. - Plurality, Narrative and the Historical Canon / M. Grever. - From National Canon to Historical Literacy / P. Lee. - "Another Brick in the Wall'. Historical Culture and History Teaching / K. Ribbens. - PART 2: FOUNDATIONS AND REVISIONS ...

The author examines the reasons Americans ignored the Holocaust for so long - how dwelling on German crimes interfered with cold war mobilization; how American Jews, not wanting to be thought of as victims, avoided the subject. The author explores in detail the decisions that later moved the Holocaust to the center of American life: Jewish leaders invoking its memory to muster support for Israel and ...

Psychology has had a number of things to say about black and colonised peoples. Beyond the Masks is a book which seeks to go beyond Franz Fanon's concept of black identity as a 'white mask', placing race and gender at the centre of our understanding of identity. Amina Mama argues that rather than simply internalising what psychological theory and dominant culture have to say about them, black women ...

When it comes to historical violence and contemporary inequality, none of us are completely innocent. We may not be direct agents of harm, but we may still contribute to, inhabit, or benefit from regimes of domination that we neither set up nor control. Arguing that the familiar categories of victim, perpetrator, and bystander do not adequately account for our connection to injustices past and present, ...

Gottfried Feder was chair of the Wirtschaftsrat [economic council] of the NSDAP from 1931. In July 1933, he became Staatssekretaer [Deputy Minister] for economy.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Richard Hofstadter, Daniel Boorstin, Kenneth Stampp, C. Vann Woodward, John Hope Franklin, Edmund Morgan, Barbara Tuchman, Geoffrey Elton, Lawrence Stone, Hugh Trevor-Roper -- aside from carrying the distinction as some of the most successful and well-respected historians of the twentieth century, these scholars found their lives and careers evolving amid some of the world's ...

Area liberated by Soviet troops. Rebuilding road and destroyed bridges. Captured Romanian soldiers, barefoot, in leg irons. Red Army enters Chernovicy. Plane drops leaflets. Kishinev: people, including Jews, waving. Fists in the air.Nikita Khruschev, in uniform. Translation of narration: Along its way the Red Army received great support from the local population. Romanian soldiers (deserters), who ...

C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now, to honor his long and truly distinguished career, Oxford is pleased to publish this special commemorative edition of Woodward's most influential work, The Strange Career of Jim Crow. ...

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The French-Congolese Senator, Jane Vialle, was appointed as a French delegate to the United Nations in 1949. During her term she served on the Ad-Hoc Anti-Slavery committee as an expert on African colonial conditions and the status of African Women. Vialle's work on the international stage was an extension of her efforts towards reforming the political, social and economic rights of women at national ...

Collection contains, particularly, documents of the Kharkiv Regional Commission for Assistance to the Extraordinary State Commission on Investigation of the atrocities of German Nazi invaders and their associates and damage caused to public organizations, state enterprises, Institutions of the USSR (general information on the record of atrocities and the forced removal of Soviet citizens into German ...

A Castle Films showcase of news events for the year 1947 with English titles: "British royal family in Africa. 5,000 Zulu warriors stage unique demonstration." "A reigning British monarch visits Dark Continent for the first time in history." "Costumes in Korea! Natives stage fierce riots as political unrest spreads!" "Korea strives for independence after 40 years of Jap slavery." 01:01:30 "Terror grips ...

A German propaganda poster depicts a tank with a Nazi swastika banner in the BG. It reads, in Russian, "Growing every day." Another propaganda poster depicts a German soldier in the FG, turning back to face local peasants, who are standing behind him and waving to him. It reads, again in Russian, "The German Army, your protector and friend!" A third propaganda poster shows a farmer tending to his field, ...

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A German propaganda poster depicts a tank with a Nazi flag/swastika banner in the background. It reads, in Russian, "Growing every day." Another propaganda poster depicts a German soldier in the foreground, turning back to face local peasants, who are standing behind him and waving to him. It reads, again in Russian, "The German Army, your protector and friend!" A third propaganda poster shows a farmer ...

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 ...

The following clips are not directly related to each other. Includes dramatized scenes of Babi Yar in the ravine area where German troops and a large group of people are herded forward at gunpoint. The shots most likely come from the 1945 fiction film by Mark Donskoi called "The Taras Family" in English or "Nepokoryonnye" ["The Unvanquished"] in Russian. 00:45:13 (silent) Burning houses. CUs of people ...

Portrait drawn by Esther Lurie, in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1951. Michlean Amir met Esther Lurie in the apartment of her grandmother’s friend, the historian Nellie Schur. Dr Schur was working on a project to create maps of the new state of Israel with the cartographer, Joseph Shapiro, who was Lurie's husband. Lurie offered to do her portrait. Esther Lurie was a professionally trained artist whose drawings ...

Esther Lurie (1913-1998) was born in Liepaja (formerly Libau), Latvia, to a religious, intellectual Jewish family. Her parents were Josef and Bluma and she had five older sisters and an older brother. The family was forced to move to Riga during World War I (1914-1918), when Liepāja, a Baltic seaport which was then part of the Russian Empire, was taken over as a military port. Esther’s artistic gifts ...