Consists of mimeographed documents and resistance tracts issued between 1943-1944 by various groups involved in the resistance movement in France. Includes tracts distributed by "Francs-tireurs et partisans--main d'oeuvre immigrée" (FTP-MOI), "Le Mouvement National Contre le Racisme," "Radio France," "L'Humanite," "L'Avant Garde," "L'Union de la Jeunesse Juive," "Le Comité Central du Parti Communiste ...

VE Day in Wiesbaden, Germany (April 19, 1945). MCUs, long line of Russian displaced persons, marching and carrying Stalin's picture and red flags (with inscription in Russian). Speeches in courtyard (slates indicated date of February 24, 1945), women marching. Bomb damage, town streets, ruins, civilians & military, US military jeeps passing by. Fast aerial shot of road crowded with German prisoners ...

Reports, studies, articles, correspondence and other materials related to the condition of national minorities in Poland and other countries in Europe, including Germans, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Lithuanians and Polish Jews. Included are materials about Jewish matters: Jewish affaires in Poland and other countries, attitudes of the Jewish population to the Polish-Soviet war, Zionist organizations, ...

The Joseph and Josie Peretz papers comprise documents and photographs concerning Joseph and Josie Peretz, a Jewish couple living in Antwerp, Belgian who survived the Holocaust. Joseph, after being released as a prisoner of war with the Belgian army was deported to a labor camp in northern France and escaped after procuring false French papers, while Josie, a Polish-born Jew, lived with a couple in ...

Ce fonds contient les dossiers de demandes de pension pour invalidité, pension pouvant être obtenue en fonction de quatre critères: personnes civiles; déportés au travail obligatoire; réfractaires et préjudice moral, principalement le cas des enfants cachés. De taille variable, ils contiennent notamment les rapports de la commission d’invalidité et de la correspondance. On y trouve fréquemment des ...

At head of title: Ministère de la défense, Etat-major de l'armée de terre, Service historique. 3 volumes ; 24 cm

Newspapers and typewritten pages in French, English, Dutch, German, and other languages. The stories are about the positive turns the war has taken for the Allied forces. The next scene shows American soldiers loading a "bomb" with these leaflets. The men place a top on the "bomb" and fasten it shut.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-200) and index. viii, 211 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

13:33 The courtroom slowly fills with jurors, prosecutors, and civil parties 13:40 President Cerdini opens the hearing; instructs the bailiff to go compel Barbie to appear 13:41 Prosecution Cohendy speaks passionately about his anger that Barbie has not been brought in by force 13:43 Cerdini suspends the hearing until the bailiff returns 14:09 Cerdini calls a resumption of the hearing; the clerk reads ...

This bold, popularizing synthesis presents a readily accessible introduction to one of the major themes of twentieth-century world history. Between 1922, when self-government was restored to Egypt, and 1994, when nonracial democracy was achieved in South Africa, 54 new nations were established in Africa. Written within the parameters of African history, as opposed to imperial history, this study charts ...

The series CR-D-07 of the sub fonds "Dossiers collectifs concernant les Luxembourgeois enrôlés de force, internés dans des camps de concentration ou des camps de prisonniers, portés disparus ou déportés (Sous-fonds)" (Collective dossiers concerning the forced enlisted people from Luxembourg, interned in concentration camps or prison camps, missing or deportedcontents) contents a post war dossier created ...

Charles Paul Kogel (1910-2009) was born November 22, 1910 in Antwerp, Belgium to Chaim Kogel and Mariem Kornreiek Kogel. He had one sister, Lena, and two brothers, Isack and Saul. He was a tailor and lived in Antwerp, Belgium with his wife Leah and daughter when World War II started. He was taken to France in 1942 to perform forced labor. His wife and daughter were deported in September 1942 or 1943 ...

The Werner and Trudy Coppel papers include correspondence, identification papers, and printed materials documenting the couple’s status in Berlin after the war as displaced persons and victims of fascism and their immigration to the United States. Correspondence includes a letter and five telegrams to the Coppels from the American Consulate in Berlin about their immigration and two letters of appreciation ...

This collection consists of the personal account of Alix Preece, a German Jewish refugee who had been living in France since 1927 and spent most of the duration of the Second World War there. She was interned for several months at Gurs before moving on to Marseilles where she was hoping to get a Brazilian visa to join her family. As her visa extension was refused she eventually managed to go to Portugal ...

Star of David patch of the type worn to identify a Jew in German occupied France. Germany occupied France in the early summer of 1940. A decree was issued on March 27, 1942, making it mandatory for Jews to wear the Judenstern badges at all times. The badges marked the Jews as outsiders and made them easy to identify. The German occupation of France ended on August 25, 1944, when German forces surrendered ...

For the three forces competing for political authority in France during World War II, music became the site of a cultural battle that reflected the war itself. German occupying authorities promoted German music at the expense of French, while the Vichy administration pursued projects of national renewal through culture. Meanwhile, Resistance networks gradually formed to combat German propaganda while ...

Documents librement communicables

Anti-Jewish and anti-Allied forces Nazi propaganda leaflet like those dropped from planes over Paris in late 1943, as part of a German propaganda campaign to raise suspicions against the United States and its part in the worldwide Jewish conspiracy which threatened the safety of France and all of Europe. The streets would appear to be littered with real dollar bills. Then, after picking one up, a person ...

Contains a manuscript entitled "Sunday's Child," by Lili R. Andrieux.

Anti-Jewish and anti-Allied forces Nazi propaganda leaflet like those dropped from planes over Paris in late 1943, as part of a German propaganda campaign to raise suspicions against the United States and its part in the worldwide Jewish conspiracy which threatened the safety of France and all of Europe. The streets would appear to be littered with real dollar bills. Then, after picking one up, a person ...

"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: ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

Ce fonds comprend la documentation de la section économique du Service d’Étude du Renseignement et de l’Action (SERA), il est divisé en dix parties : finances, commerce, élevage-agriculture-ravitaillement, transport, prix, main-d’œuvre, industrie, situation économique, situation d’après-guerre et réquisitions forcées. On y notera notamment les dossiers suivants : n°5 Biens juifs ; n°25 travail forcé, ...

Arthur Mainzer (1923-) was a cameraman in the 4th Combat Camera Unit of the 9th Air Force. The Combat Camera Unit was tasked with creating Air Force training films at Hal Roach Studios. After completing training at the Air Force Photo Technical School in Denver, CO and the First Motion Picture Unit in Culver, City, CA, Mainzer was deployed to Europe. He was filming bomb damage by the Allied Air Forces ...