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Leo Weinrieb (1917-2011) was born in what was then the Russian Empire, in present-day Poland (in a village between Sosnowiec and Katowice), in 1917. Following his birth, but before the formation of the Polish state in the wake of World War I, his parents decided it would be better to live in Germany, and immigrated there, where his father initially found work as a coal miner in western Germany. Later, ...

"An unputdownable debut charting the thrilling life and heroism of Hannie Schaft, a young-woman-turned-Dutch-Resistance-fighter in Nazi-occupied Netherlands. Hannie Schaft didn't train to be a soldier: she had dreams of her own. But dreams die in wartime, and her friends are no longer safe. Hiding them is not enough. Hannie is young but she won't stand aside as the menace of Nazi evil tightens its ...

Human rights are not (if even considered) prominent within typical nationalist discourses. Nationalism has preoccupations with wars, empire, heroism, common struggles, or self-righteousness. The national past is typically praised within patriotic narratives because this illustrates the idealized characteristics of identity. For the worst twentieth century examples of nationalism (and related political ...

"During World War II, the United States helped vanquish the Axis powers by converting its enormous economic capacities into military might. Producing nearly two-thirds of all the munitions used by Allied forces, American industry became what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called 'the arsenal of democracy.' Crucial in this effort were business leaders. Some of these captains of industry went to Washington ...

Since the end of World War II, historians and psychologists have investigated the factors that motivated Germans to become Nazis before and during the war. While most studies have focused on the high-level figures who were tried at Nuremberg, much less is known about the hundreds of SS members, party functionaries, and intelligence agents who quietly navigated the transition to postwar life and successfully ...

Both before and during the war, Germany suffered from a critical manpower shortage. One way in which the Arbeitsverwaltung (the Employment Administration) attempted to solve this problem was the use of Jewish slave labor. Jews were employed mainly in public works, later in war industries, and were strictly segregated from Aryan workers. Many were housed in labor camps. At first, Jews working in war ...

The collection documents the wartime experiences of Blanche Goldszpiner, an American living and working in Warsaw during the Holocaust. Included is a photographic postcard of a seated woman; a letter written by Blanche Goldszpiner in 1940 in Warsaw, Poland, to her cousin in the United States prior her internment in the Warsaw ghetto; and an envelope addressed to "Readers Digest" from Jack Balinsky ...

"Truth and Justice Can't Wait examines recent human rights developments in Libya, focusing on areas of limited progress, and the institutional barriers that attempts to improve human rights protection run up against. New newspapers have expanded the space for free expression, but penal code provisions continue to criminalize free speech; journalists face harassment and litigation for expressing critical ...

Set and written during World War II, Charles Jackson’s “The Fall of Valor” is a masterful work that depicts marital crisis and simmering sexuality at a time when most of us might assume Americans would rather recoil from such frankness. But as Jackson highlights, the second war, in some ways, brought sexuality to the American forefront for perhaps the first time. John and Ethel Grandin, together ten ...