A history of Treblinka, dwelling on the perpetrators of the mass murder - the SS officers and the guards who operated this killing center. Not all of them were sadists or antisemites, and some, including the second commandant Franz Stangl, experienced psychological problems while serving in Treblinka; but the Nazi killing machine equalized them with outright sadists (like Kurt Franz) and transformed ...

Sign: Maros Utca 16 (address). Sign: X-ray. Exhumation by hospital. VO: Infamous hospital where the Arrow Cross committed murders. Mass graves exhumed in hospital garden. They killed helpless patients in their beds along with doctors and nurses. Former Arrow Cross members (waiting for trials) watch exhumation. CUs intercut with exhumation shots.

Among numerous written memories of radical and mass reprisals mostly from the period 1944 – 1945, this collection contains also various testimonies of the Holocaust survivors who were facing the mass persecution during and even after the suppression of the Slovak National Uprising by German Army forces, POHG, anti-fascist unit Edelweiss, etc. Significant attention is paid the to mass executions in ...

Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Zhitomir region, 1945-1946
 
 Included in the collection are reports prepared for the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission by the Zhitomir regional committee; general information regarding the number of civilians and Soviet POWs who were murdered or deported in the region's districts; decision by the Red Army Prosecutor regarding ...

One of the territories Hungary (re)acquired from Czechoslovakia around the time of the latter's destruction was Carpatho-Ruthenia (known also as Subcarpathian Rus′ or Kárpátalja in Hungarian). The largest part of this territory was not integrated into the Hungarian county system but acquired its own Regent Commissariat. The territory has special significance for the history of the Holocaust in Hungary. ...

Samples of Soviet radio propaganda directed to Bulgaria from the radio station"Hristo Botev" located in the Soviet Union, which raise issues such as the persecution of Jews in Thrace and Macedonia and German crimes in Kiev, Ukraine.

Photographs; some found after the mass murder in Łuck ghetto on August 19-23, 1942 in Hirka Polanka, during which 18,000 Jews were murdered, among them Froim Aron Bojdman, Rywka Bojdman, donor’s maternal grandparents and Rachela, Abram and Leib Bojdman, siblings of Estera Bojdman, later Ettinger. As well as Stella Ettinger, donor’s paternal grandmother and her son Aleksander Ettinger. Other photographs ...

M.52.DAKirO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Kirovograd Region
 
 History of the Archives:
 
 In November 1925 a decision was made by the presidium of the Executive Committee of the Zinoviyevsk region, regarding the establishment of an archive. However, in 1930 the archive was closed and in its place a local archival administration was established in Zinoviyevsk. In ...

A comprehensive survey of the Nuremberg Trials by the jurist and member of the prosecution staff, focusing especially on the SS Einsatzgruppen and their involvement in the murder of the Jews of Europe. Discusses the background to the Holocaust, incitement to pogroms, racial propaganda and the specific roles of the Gestapo and the SS in the extermination. also includes reports of the trials of concentration ...

During the National Socialist dictatorship, SS and police forces made frequent use of the phrase 'shot while trying to escape' to describe the killing of the regime's putative political and racial enemies within the confines of the concentration camps, the Jewish ghettos in the occupied territories, and in anti-partisan operations in the East. In many cases, the phrase normalized the act of murder ...

(LIB 5907) Murder, Gardelegen, Germany, April 22, 1945. HSs, long line of German civilians carrying grave markers and shovels leave village. CUs dead, skulls, corpses. VS, German civilians burying murdered prisoners who were burned to death. VS, German civilians carrying bodies in cemetery. (LIB 5908) Mass Murder, Leipzig, Germany, April 20, 1945. HSs, burned building in concentration camp with bodies ...

Burning town. Civilians, soldiers, survivors. Smoke. Camp, barbed wire. Sign reading O.T. BETRIEBE KLOOGA. Photographic still of Hitler. Corpses piled next to bunks, corpses in pits. Pan of survivors, simulating murders/torture. Footage of brutally murdered bodies.

(LIB 6745) Mass murder burial, Namering(?), Germany, May 19, 1945 SEQ: A woman and two children walking in field; woman searching in ruins, holding up bits of burned clothing and bones. CUs, woman and children. SEQ: Burial of slave laborers exhumed from mass graves. German civilians nail wooden coffins, load them on wagons, lower coffins into graves. Men and women shovel dirt over coffins in graves. ...

"Explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century--the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965-66, leaving some five hundred thousand people dead and more than a million others in detention. An expert in modern Indonesian history, genocide, and human rights, Geoffrey Robinson sets out to account for ...

An introduction to the history of the Holocaust, analyzing its causes. Deals with the discrimination against Jews in Germany between 1933-39, Jewish emigration between 1933-41, Aryanization, the deprivation of rights, the Wannsee Conference, and the implementation of the Final Solution: the massacres perpetrated by Einsatzgruppen, the ghettoization, the deportations, and the industrialized mass murder ...

Probes the history and memory of four symbolic relics of the Holocaust: the railway cars that carried Jews to their deaths, symbolizing the mechanics of murder; the Arbeit Macht Frei sign at Auschwitz, pointing to the insidious logic of the camp system; the number six million, representing an approximation of the number killed and mass murder generally; and the persona of Anne Frank, associated with ...

"This new Seminar Study presents a straightforward, matter-of-fact analysis of the encounter between the Third Reich and the Jews. David Engel sets out to clarify the basic facts and to explore the possible reasons why 5.8 million European Jews died in its course. Rejecting the notion that the Holocaust must be approached with awe and trembling, the volume examines the documentary record that historians ...

Includes bibliographical references and index. xiv, 270 pages : 1 map ; 23 cm

The fonds consists of documents, reports, lists, and various kinds of materials concerning annihilation of local residents (mostly Jews) in all of Lithuania.

Contains diplomatic notes regarding mass murders committed by Germans in the Soviet Union and correspondence regarding Bulgarian representation of German, Hungarian, and Romanian interests in the Soviet Union.

Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. This book is the chilling story of these crimes. It puts forward the important argument that brutal mass killings under Stalin in the 1930s were indeed ...

The collection of the chief of Trakai (Troki) county contains important documents concerning activities of the Jewish community and Jewish organizations before the Second World War. There are also documents about establishing ghettos in the district, confiscation of Jewish private property, and annihilation of Jews in the province of Lithuania.

[Beginning in the period of the early mass murder of Jews in June 1914 and through to the post-Holocaust period]. cd-rom.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 863-864) and indexes. 891 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.