The papers consist of a note written by political prisoner Zygmunt Gemel to his father Franciszek Gemel and thrown from a train while Zygmunt was being deported to Auschwitz III-Monowitz (Buna) in 1944, and a subsequent letter Zygmunt to his father from the camp dated 23 April 1944.

A biography of Mala Zimetbaum, a Belgian Jewish woman, who was born in 1918 in Brzesko, Poland. In 1928 her family immigrated to Belgium. She was deported in 1942 from Antwerpen to Auschwitz, where she was active in Jewish resistance; she helped many of her fellow prisoners in the camp and even saved the lives of some of them. In 1944 she managed to escape with her friend, Edward Galiński, a Polish ...

47 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 x 25 cm

"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 ...

Consists of administrative orders and internal reports pertaining to prisons and incarceration facilities in Polish territories occupied by the Third Reich. A preponderance of documents in this collection were issued by the Prosecutor's Office in Katowice, Poland (Kattowitz) in regard to prisons and incarceration facilities in Bielsko Biala (Bielitz) and the Prosecutor's Office in Wrocław (Breslau) ...

168 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Memoirs. 245 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

"An Africa Watch/Prison Project report." 62 pages ; 28 cm

James B. Donovan. United States Navy Commander. Associate Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, where he coordinated and presented all Nazi films at the trials. General Counsel to OSS. Negotiated the exchange of Bay of Pigs prisoners with Fidel Castro as an independent lawyer under backdrop of the missile crisis, securing the freedom of nearly 10,000 people. Portrayed by Tom Hanks in "Bridge of Spies". ...

Contains a translated transcript of a speech given by Z. Grinberg at the "Concert in St. Ottilien" on May 27, 1945. Grinberg was the "head doctor of the hospital for political ex-prisoners in Germany at the liberation."

Contains a "Displaced persons pass and ex-Political Prisoner from Concentration Camp" document issued to "Helena Borensztajn" (donor) authorizing her to be absent from the Stuttgart West camp; undated.

Petrus Johannes alias Jan De Vleeshouwer was born on 19 July 1901 in Grobbendonk, Belgium. He married Leonie Obbels, born in Pulle, Belgium, on 1st August 1897. Jan was the verger and organist of Grobbendonk. Together, Jan and Leonie had two children: Jozef De Vleeshouwer and Maria De Vleeshouwer. The family lived at Kiezelweg 62 (today Quinten Matsyslaan) in Grobbendonk. During the Second World War ...

Proceedings of the 14th Dachauer Symposium zur Zeitgeschichte, held Oct. 18-19, 2013 in Dachau. 286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.