Julian Lehmann, son of the author Oskar Lehmann, and grandson of the Rabbi Dr. Markus Lehmann was born on 3 October 1886 in Mainz, lived in Hamburg and was editor of the <i>Israelitisches Familienblatt</i>. After studying modern languages and literature, he did a short course in journalism and became an editor on the <i>Frankfurter Nachrichten</i> (1912-1927), then he founded the periodical <i>Der ...

This book is an in-depth analysis of three of the most crucial years in twentieth-century Italian history, the years 1943-46. After more than two decades of a Fascist regime and a disastrous war experience during which Italy changed sides, these years saw the laying of the political and cultural foundations for what has since become known as Italy's First Republic. Drawing on texts from the literature, ...

This collection of copy papers contains material which documents the activities of Paul Hollander, a German Jewish refugee in France who joined the French Foreign Legion at the beginning of World War II and was subsequently sent to a forced labour camp in North Africa. Of particular interest in this collection are reports on conditions in the labour camps of Colomb Behar, Kenadsa (Algeria) and Bour-Arfa ...

The papers consist of documents and materials relating to H.W. Katz, his wife Friedel (née Kramer), and their daughter, Eve. Includes identity papers, demobilization papers, receipts, letters of recommendation, safe conduct passes, visa information, and correspondence related to the family's escape from Paris to Marseilles, life in Marseilles, and escape in 1941 to Lisbon to await the ship that took ...

From internal evidence it appears that Lehmann was a German Jewish immigrant to Great Britain some time in the 1930s and that he was formerly resident in Frankfurt and later Hamburg.<br><br>Julian Lehmann, son of the author Oskar Lehmann, and grandson of the Rabbi Dr. Markus Lehmann was born on 3 October 1886 in Mainz, lived in Hamburg and was editor of the <em>Israelitisches Familienblatt</em>. After ...

In 1939, fashion became an economic and symbolic sphere of great importance in France. Invasive textile legislation, rationing and threats from German and American couturiers were pushing the design and trade of Parisian style to its limits. It is widely accepted that French fashion was severely curtailed as a result, isolated from former foreign clients and deposed of its crown as global queen of ...

This is a study of the Dutch's textual news coverage of the war in Bosnia in the year 1992. The first chapter deals with the academic discussion about representation and the self-representation of the ethnic groups living in former Yugoslavia. I argue that these (self- )representations are based on stereotypes. Special attention has been paid to the so called 'frames'. There are three different frames ...

"A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II--and how America allowed them to get away with it. In 1946, Günther Quandt--patriarch of Germany's most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW--was arrested for suspected Nazi collaboration. Quandt claimed that he had been forced to join the ...

Reporting the War features the lives and work of journalists who brought news of the war from the European and Pacific theaters to the home front. More than one hundred captioned illustrations accompany Frederick Voss's account of the correspondents, photographers, and field artists who braved enemy fire, slept in foxholes, and were prisoners of war. With a pantheon of talent including Ernie Pyle, ...

In reaction to the Irving v. Penguin/Lipstadt (winter, 2000) trial, the editors of this volume sought to provide a text that moves away from the Holocaust itself to ask broader questions about the stubborn persistence of anti-Semitic invective and historical distortion despite legal verdicts to the contrary, historical correctives and media reportage. In these essays the authors explore the assumptions ...

Marcus alias Marc Turfkruijer was born on 17 September 1900 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, as the son of Dutch lapidarist Salomon Turfkruijer and his wife Lea Velleman. Marc had a younger brother named Isaac who was born in Rotterdam on 11 April 1902. The Turfkruijer family moved to Antwerp when Marc was two years old. His baby sister Ludovica alias Louisa was born in the Belgian port city on 16 March ...

Henny (Henriette) Wenkart was born in Vienna, Austria on 5 July 1928, the daughter of Hermann (b. 1896) and Rose (b. 1904, nee Stein) Wenkart. In 1939, she was chosen to be one of the "50 children" who immigrated to the United States as part of a transport organized by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus in June 1939. After her own immigration, Henny was reunited with her parents and sister Elenore, who arrived ...

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The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Isaac Margosis and his wife Schendel Brotman who fled Brussels, Belgium with their children Anna, Willy, and Michel in 1940. Included are letters to Isaac and Schendel, living as refugees in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, from Anna and Willy in Barcelona, Spain (1944) and Palestine (1944-1948); correspondence and writings regarding Isaac’s journalism ...

The collection reflects the interwar work of the prominent Zagreb lawyer Aleksander Licht. It contains documentation from legal proceedings in which he was involved (property law cases, film rights, access to public information/journalism cases), and documentation about development of the Zionist movement in Croatia/the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

A catalogue for the Archive as a whole, including this series, is available on the University of Manchester Special Collections website There is also a collection-level description of the Archive available via .

The Terrence Des Pres papers consist of biographical materials, course material, United States Holocaust Memorial Council materials, correspondence, photographs, printed material, subject files, and writing documenting professor and author Terrence Des Pres, his 1976 book on survivors and the Holocaust, the literature courses he taught at Colgate University, including one on the literature of the Holocaust, ...