Surveys Nazi persecution of Jews and other groups, particularly the racial legislation, forced sterilizaton (including medical experiments in mass sterilization in Auschwitz), and the "euthanasia" program. Notes that the methods used to murder the mentally and physically handicapped were later applied to Jews. States that the known detention and death centers numbered 10,005 and divides them into 16 ...

The most appalling crime in human affairs is certainly genocide. But perhaps even more shocking is the fact that those who organize and even those who commit mass murder are rarely punished for what they have done. Most, in fact, profit from their crimes. The Splendid Blond Beast is the latest investigation into this seamiest side of the twentieth century, from the author of the award-winning Blowback, ...

Consists of one manuscript, 41 pages, entitled "Jewish Prisoners of the Concentration Camp "Red Cross", written by Zoran Milentijević in Niš, Yugoslavia, in 1978. The manuscript, which is an English language translation, describes the history of the Jewish families of Niš, life in the "Red Cross" concentration camp, an escape from the camp on February 12, 1942, and the mass murder of those who remained ...

"During the First World War, the Japanese fought on the Allied side and treated captured German prisoners with civility. In the years that followed, Japan came to reject Western values and ideas under the Emperor Hirohito. Conformity was the norm: the army regime became brutal, and the Japanese psyche one of selfless devotion to the country and emperor. During World War II, Japanese soldiers were to ...

Reel 2 CUs, documents. Contemporary footage - interview, man reading from letter, inside museum exhibit showing books and a button in the shape of a Star of David. Forced laborers on a mountain. Meeting with Nazi officials. German planes. Contemporary footage of man singing a song in Bulgarian and playing the guitar, inside the museum exhibition (the song is performed other times over the duration ...

The collection of printed publications was created in 1992 on the basis of the operative archive of the former KGB UkrSSR. It contains documents of archival funds of departments of the central apparatus and regional branches of the Security Service of Ukraine, which have lost their operational importance, but keep historical and scholarly meaning.

Presents the reminiscences of 161 Germans on the Nazi period and the Second World War. The chapters "Juden raus!" (p. 91-118) for the prewar period, and "Endlösung" (p. 393-455) for the war period, relate experiences of persecution of Jews and half-Jews in everyday life and in concentration camps. Incidents showing attitudes to Jews are scattered throughout the book. Includes accounts by several Germans ...

Analyzes the conglomerate Sipo (Sicherheitspolizei; fusion of the Kriminalpolizei and the Gestapo) and SD (Sicherheitsdienst), created by Himmler in 1936 and commanded by Heydrich, as an amalgam of Nazi Party and state agencies which constituted the heart of the National-Socialist police state based on terror and mass murder. Advocates the polycratic-functionalist theory as against intentionalism, ...

M.52.DAPO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Poltava Region
 
 History of the Archives:
 
 The Central Historical Archives in Poltava was established in 1918. Afterwards, the archival authority of the Poltava sub-division was established in 1922 when the Historical Archives became subordinate to it and its name was changed to the Historical Archives of the Polatava sub-division. ...

Seventeen contemporary academics and critics look at the Holocaust and its literary aftermath. This series of responses was commissioned specially for publication by Professor Gitay and Jewish Scholars Press and includes studies of Paul Celan, Doris Lessing, Peter Weiss, Primo Levi, Giorgio Bassani, Anne Frank, Jacov Lind, Jurek Becker and others. An especially interesting study involves German youth ...

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Contains fragments of addresses of Prime Minister Sikorski of November 14, 1940, the list of Jewish journalists and reporters abroad, letters from and to President of the New Zionist Organization in London, the report of the World Jewish Congress, and press clippings.

Description of the files are available on IDEA ALM system at Yad Vashem Archives reading room An Index in English available in file 300/146 in the YV archives

This articles examines Nazi attempts to cover up the first extermination camp established by the Third Reich at Chelmno. The Nazis tried to deceive victims and bystanders by pretending that deportees were transferred from the provinces to the Lodz ghetto of from the Lodz ghetto to the provinces and Germany. The article also shows that Nazi attempts to erase the physical evidence of mass murder through ...

Contains drafts and copies of addresses of Gen. Sikorski and other documents related to political activities of Retinger. Includes study, letters, notes, reports, correspondence, e.g. with S.Brodetzki, Stanisław Kot, Jan Karski, S. Gruszka, the Joint, New Zionist Organization and “The Jewish Chronicle”, Polish Embassy in Washington, etc. related to various issues, e.g. relives of Jews to the Army in ...

Copyright Holder: Instytut Polski i Muzeum im. Gen. Sikorskiego w Londynie

Proposes a framework for understanding the history of the Holocaust, focusing on the German perpetrators of the genocide and reflecting on social, ethical, and religious issues. Discusses the evolution of antisemitism from the ancient period to Nazi racism. Describes the Nazi rise to power, anti-Jewish laws of the 1930s, the "Kristallnacht" pogrom, ghettoization in occupied Poland, mass killings in ...

"Analyzes the political violence in Rwanda alongside mass murder in Bosnia and the lynching of African Americans in the United States during the Jim Crow era to show how violent acts have been 'choreographed' not only to damage and kill victims but also to make an impact on observers, neighbors, and the larger society"-- Includes bibliographical references and index. xi, 220 pages ; 24 cm

Documentation of the Committee for the History of the Great Patriotic War, affiliated with the TsK KP (b) in Belorussia, 1942-1946
 
 Included in the collection, among other material:
 
 - German posters against Jews and Communists in Belorussia;
 - Documentation regarding Nazi war criminals in Belorussia;
 - Testimonies of partisans in eastern Belorussia, regarding the ...

This book explores the subject of genocide through key debates and case studies. It analyses the dynamics of genocide - the processes and mechanisms of acts committed with the intention of destroying, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, religious or racial group - in order to shed light upon its origins, characteristics and consequences. Debating Genocide begins with an introduction to the concept ...

Contains papers of Władysław Anders, General of the Polish Armed Forces in Exile. Also includes a journal of the activities of General Anders, 7 August 1941-27 March 1945, and speeches, orders, statements, studies, notes and correspondence.

In February 1945 the Allies obliterated Dresden, the 'Florence of the Elbe'. Explosive bombs weighing over 1,000 lbs fell every seven and a half seconds and an estimated 25,000 people were killed. Was Dresden a legitimate military target or was the bombing a last act of atavistic mass murder in a war already won? From the history of the city to the attack itself, conveyed in a minute-by-minute account ...