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"Going beyond the issue of the persecution of homosexuals and the central role played by Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1945, this book is the first to examine the daily lives of homosexual men and women in wartime. By bringing together European specialists on the subject, it relates a different history, one which was indeed marked by repression but also by enlistment in armies at war and resistance ...

Selected records of the Prosecutor's Office of the District Court in Kielce consist of civil and criminal files. Includes cases related to political, economic and criminal-social matters, as distribution of illegal prints, anti-state speeches, espionage activities, Communist activities of Jewish organizations, and election fraud. A separate group are files relate to the abuse and neglect of official ...

Documentation of the regional Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Lodz, 1946-1980
 
 Included in the collection are lists of murdered people, including Jews, from the war period in the Lodz region; lists of Jews from the Kutro, Lodz, Tomaszow Mazoviecki, Piotrkow, Radomsko, Pabianice, Zgierz and Leczyca Ghettos; documentation regarding acts of abuse against ...

"The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Today, the consensus that it is moral to remember, immoral to forget, is nearly absolute. And yet is this right? David Rieff, an independent writer who has reported on bloody conflicts in Africa, the Balkans, and Central Asia, insists ...

The WRA historian's account of the people who were evacuated and of the factors which determined their wartime exclusion from their homes on the Pacific Coast. Beginning with a brief chapter on two early-17th century voyages from Japan to the New World and scattered arrivals of Japanese castaways during the 19th century, this report continues with a detailed treatment of the mass migrations of Japanese ...

Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Vinnitsa region, 1944
 
 The collection includes documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Vinnitsa region, June-November 1944, and includes documents, testimonies and survey reports regarding the murder of Jews during the German occupation.
 
 The documentation includes statistical reports, ...

Box containing small Mickey Mouse figure framed by an artificial flower garland that belonged to Pierre Seel, who at age 18 was arrested on May 3, 1941, in Mulhouse in German occupied France for homosexuality. His mother created the boxed setting with the toy as a memorial device to remember and protect her son. The flower garland was originally part of her wedding veil. Pierre was brutally tortured ...

Record collection and record preservation have direct consequences for survivors and often determine the efficacy of the production of genocide memory. Currently, there are increased restrictions that limit our access to evidence and threaten long-term preservation of records. This article will focus on the recent decision to permanently destroy Independent Assessment Process files within fifteen years. ...

Documentation of the Romanian authorities in the Bukovina and Transnistria area, 1941-1942
 
 Included in the collection:
 
 - Letters sent by inmates in camps in the Bukovina area to their family members in Cernauti, regarding life in the camps, 1941;
 - Regulation of Sadagura camp, regarding inmates in the area of northern Bukovina;
 - Report prepared by commander Chelmeniti, ...

As a young woman, Leymah Gbowee was broken by the Liberian civil war. Years of fighting destroyed her country and shattered Gbowee's girlhood hopes and dreams. As a young mother trapped in a nightmare of domestic abuse, she found the courage to turn her bitterness into action, propelled by her realization that it is women who suffer most during conflicts and that the power of women working together ...