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Leif Herman Rosenstock was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1926. His father, Noah Rosenstock, was a locksmith and his mother, Frida Frajdla Eisen Rosenstock, took care of the children. Leif Rosenstock had two younger siblings: Eva Lillian, born in 1928 and John Moritz, born in 1941. The Rosenstock family included Leif’s paternal grandparents: Isak Rosenstock, born in Lund, Sweden in 1880; his wife, ...

The scene of one of the biggest genocides of the last century, Rwanda has become a household word, yet bitter disagreements persist as to its causes and consequences. Through a blend of personal memories and historical analysis, and informed by a lifelong experience of research in Central Africa, the author challenges conventional wisdom and suggests a new perspective for making sense of the appalling ...

Helene Mashan Cohn (1883-1971) was born in Königs-Wusterhausen Germany. She married Eugen Cohn in Berlin in 1910, and their son Gunter was born in Berlin in 1911. Gunter immigrated to Cuba in early 1939. His parents tried to join them aboard the MS St. Louis in May 1939, but the ship was returned to Europe. The Cohns disembarked in France, but continued to pursue immigration to Cuba to rejoin their ...

Collectie 088: Arbeitsbereich der NSDAP in den Niederlanden > Verband Reichsdeutscher Vereine in den Niederlanden > Correspondentie van de centrale leiding van de Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei in Nederland, dr. O. Butting, 1933 - 1940.

The collection consists of pre-war photographs of the Shames family in Warsaw, Poland and post-war photographs in Lwów, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine), Siberia, Berlin, Germany, Israel, and the United States. Includes two photographs of the family on a ship during their immigration to the United States. Some of the photographs are copy prints.

"In May of 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, effectively putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of this global military conflict did not cease with the signing of truces and peace treaties. Millions of lost and homeless POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and concentration camp survivors overwhelmed Germany, a country in complete disarray. British and ...

The Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection contains sound recordings, objects, microfilms, correspondence, music scores and notation, personal narratives, artwork, poetry, manuscripts, research notes, photograph, negatives, and various other documents compiled by Aleksander Kulisiewicz from 1945 until the time of his death in 1982. The materials in the collection relate to a variety of Holocaust topics, ...

The Hungarian Jewish Archive offers an important selection of sources documenting the reactions and testimonies of Hungarian Jewish victims. These sources are in various genres and from different times (i.e. there are both contemporaneous and postwar materials among them). Among the contemporaneous sources, there are several diaries that were kept in the first half of the 1940s. The collection also ...

Elias Cala was born September 19, 1917, to a Jewish family in Dobrzyn nad Wisla. His parents were Joseph (b. 1885) and Miriam (nee Diamont). He was the middle child of five siblings, Rachel (b.1914), Saul (b. 1916), Shlomo (b. 1920), and Victor (b. 1925). His father died of natural causes before World War II. In 1938, Elias entered the Polish army. His older brother, Saul, had been conscripted, but ...

The Community Resource Center is not the actual creator, but rather serves as a convention here. In general, the projects focusing on oral history interviews with Roma in Romania were not carried out by permanent institutions specialized in oral history, but by various individuals who coordinated one or more projects that led to the creation of such collections, which varied greatly in quantitative ...