This book looks at the development of Japan before the War, arguing that the achievements of this period are central to the present competitiveness of the country's industrial technology. Dr Fukasaku examines industrial, educational and research policy in this period and presents a case study of a leading enterprise, the Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard, in order to assess the importance of training and ...

Contains four letters from girls in Children's Home in Otwock, Poland, photograph of Krystyna Reklewska [a wartime friend of Lilian Falk, donor], pre-war photograph of Lilian, post-war photograph of Lilian, post-war photograph and wartime kennkarte of rescuer Mrs. Bronislawa Hessen (Bronislawa Kaczmarczyk), war-time photograph of Lilian's mother, Dr. Rozalja Szajn, birth certificate used by Rozalja ...

Contains selected records from towns (Płock, Gąbin, Gostynin, Sierpc, Raciąż and Wyszogród), and counties (in Gostynin, Płock and Sierpc) in voivodeship Mazowieckie (Poland), both those group of records are from the pre-war, and post-war period. Records from the pre-war period include: minutes of sessions of the Town Hall, budget books, reports and various matters of social and economic character, ...

Surveys antisemitism in Britain from the campaign against Disraeli in 1876 until World War II. The pre-World War I period was marked by anti-Jewish sentiments following the great influx of immigrants into Britain. The fear of "Jewish domination" was expressed in British antisemitic writings. World War I brought about a rise in antisemitism; riots broke out in London and in Leeds in 1917. After the ...

Consists of one memoir, 9 pages, describing the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Gabriele (now Gabrielle) Kahn, originally of Mannheim, Germany. Gabriele's family was prominent in Germany, but fled the country in 1933, moving first to Paris, and then to the Netherlands. There, the family lived in Amsterdam, Amstelveen, and Blaricum, including a period of time in hiding, before escaping ...

A folder containing a two-page sheet of paper with information on the Jewish community of Veria and one 1 sheet of paper with a sketch of the Jewish quarter (during the pre-war period).

Copyright Holder: Mrs. Lillian Feintuch

Description of most of the files are available on IDEA ALM system at Yad Vashem Archives reading room and on the Yad Vashem website

Consists of postcards written by Nissim (Nino) and Ermosa (Mosa) Bachar [donor's father and mother] during his period of internment in Albania during World War II. Includes pre- and post-war family photographs of the donor and her family, including two photographs of Nissim Bachar in a labor camp in Albania.

O.75: Letters and postcards from the Holocaust period or regarding the Holocaust
 
 In the Record Group are personal letters collected by Yad Vashem since its establishment. The letters were written before, during and after the Holocaust period in the Nazi occupied countries - in ghettos, camps and hiding places, and in the countries to which the Jewish refugees from Europe succeeded in escaping ...

Testimony, typescript, two pages. Recounts experiences of Kolander, in his native Poland, life in pre-war period, German occupation, wartime exile in Soviet Union (Ural Mountains), experience as DP at Landshut, immigration to U.S.

The collection consists of five photographs documenting the Weiner family in Czechoslovakia during the time period of the Holocaust. Includes pre-World War II images of Paul Weiner, his parents, brother, grandmother as well as a photograph of his high school class at Truhlarske Gymnasium after the war.

Two albums related to Emil and Martha Feigenbaum's emigration from Berlin, Germany, and their arrival in the United States. The materials cover the pre-war, war, and post-war periods and include documentation of the efforts to save Emil's parents, Meier and Flora, both of whom perished in the Holocaust.

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Contains materials from trials conducted in the Ukrainian SSR (Soviet Socialist Republic) during and after World War II. The material includes documents from pre-trial investigations by the Ukrainian NKVD (Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del), as well as interrogation protocols, indictments, verdicts and sentences, and post-sentencing histories. For each trial, the case number, the regional office, ...

Documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Flora Mendelowicz (donor) and her family during the time period surrounding the Holocaust in Belgium; included in the collection are a post-war identification document issued by the Romanian government for "Feige, Flora, Charlotte, and Betty Mendelovitz" as well as pre-war photographs of the Mendelowicz family in Romania on a family holiday ...

This collection contains materials from 83 families throughout the world originating from Ostrava, including: family photographs, as well as images of pre-war Ostrava, including synagogues and businesses, personal papers such as birth, marriage, and death certificates, school records, newspaper clippings, business advertisements, letters, as well as memoirs, genealogy charts, and testimonies documenting ...

Collection of three photographs documenting the experiences of Reine Behar (donor) and her family in Bulgaria during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. Photos depict Reine and her parents pre-war, Reine with friends on the streets of Sofia, Bulgaria, and Reine's mother; Photo album of the Behar family in Sofia and other cities in Bulgaria before and during the Holocaust.

Collection of documents, correspondence, papers, and other materials primarily relating to the Heymann and Frank families before, during, and after the time period surrounding the Holocaust. Collection includes, but is not limited to: pre-war documents, ration cards, cookbook, poesie book, certificates, report cards, notes, correspondence, identity documents, passport, prayer books, small portfolio, ...

Contain selected records from files of the towns Brójce, Pszczew and Gorzów Wielkopolski, created during the pre-war period, as well as in the first years of WWII. The materials from 1933-39 refer to the election of the Jewish community (list of members of the community in Gorzów), religious schooling, holidays and Jewish graveyards. Records from the period after 1939 relate to anti-Jewish orders, ...

Collection consists of five photographs documenting members of the During family at the time period of the Holocaust. Images include Kurt During (donor's brother), Elsa During (donor's grandmother) with her son Horst, all of whom were killed during the Holocaust. Image of Eleanora (Lore) During Markusfeld (donor's aunt) and her friend Fritzi Wolfinger in 1947 after their liberation and a pre-war photographic ...

Testimony, circa 60 pages, typescript, titled "From the Abyss to Freedom: The Story of a Survivor of the Death Camps, 1939-1945," by Moshe Goldschmidt, composed in Hebrew. Describes pre-war life in Bialystok, invasion and occupation by Soviets, then Germans; life in Bialystok ghetto, then a succession of camps (Belzec, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Gusen). Accompanying account of Miriam Goldschmidt (95 pages, ...

Discusses the causes, the events, and the consequences of the Holocaust. Analyzes the ideological pre-history of the Nazi period in Germany and Austria after World War I, searching for a reason for the later annihilation of European Jewry. Contrary to most European countries, in Germany and Austria Jews had achieved a high level of social advancement and integration, against which modern antisemitism ...

Jan Jakow Szelubski was born on March 25, 1916, in Lida, Lithuania (now Belarus) to Tuwia and Miriam Szelubski. His older sister, Jochewed, immigrated to Palestine in 1935. In 1938 Jan was drafted into the Polish army and served in Vilna, Poland. A short time before the end of his military service, World War II broke out, and Jan fought with his unit near East Prussia. On September 24, 1939, his unit ...