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One of the greatest and most influential books of social psychology ever written, The Crowd had a profound impact not only on Freud but also on such masters of crowd control as Hitler and Mussolini, who might have used its observations as a how-to handbook for stirring up the passions of the populace. As the author writes, "The masses have never thirsted after truth. . . . Whoever can supply them with ...

"War has been commemorated since ancient times. The recent First World War centenaries are proof that remembering conflict continues to produce strong feelings among people of all walks of life. But how, in the twenty-first century, can we do commemoration better? In particular, how can commemoration contribute to post-war reconciliation and reconstruction? In this book, a global roster of distinguished ...

<p> <strong>FOR PERMISSION TO ACCESS THIS ARCHIVE PLEASE CLICK THE LINK BELOW IN THE ATTACHED DOCUMENTS FIELD AND PRINTOUT, FILL OUT AND SEND TO ADDRESS GIVEN.</strong></p>The Defence Archive contains reports from the Jewish community's observers who attended many local and national meetings held by these groups, assessments of the groups' aims and capabilities, correspondence with the police and government, ...

Béla Imrédy (1890-1946), Director of the Hungarian National Bank, Minister of Finance, Minister of Economic Coordination and subsequently Prime Minister of Hungary between 1938 and 1939. The first anti-Jewish law was adopted during his premiership. He initiated the Second Anti-Jewish Law in late 1938 that was meant to further limit the socioeconomic opportunities of Hungarian Jews and aimed to reduce ...

Created by Agnes Frankl while doing forced labor in a factory in Lippstadt, Germany. The donor had engraved on this ring, "Dum Spiro, spero" I hope as long as I live, but the engraving has since worn off

The work is presented as translated selections from S. Pellico's Le mie prigioni, but this attribution is fictitious. Actually it contains selections from E. Oudinot's Récits de guerre et de foyer. Paris : Stiegler, 1894. Cf. BM suppl. 1966-70. 41 p. ; 27 cm.

Gibor Weinberger was born in Budapest in January 1935, to Arpád and Anna (Nusi) Weinberger. Arpád was a medical doctor, and was conscripted into forced labor in 1943, but since he was a doctor, he was sent to Komárom to work until 1944, when he was discharged. Following the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944, the family was forced to resettle in a Jewish district in Budapest, but after Arpád ...

Camillo Adler (1905-1985) was born in 1905 in Austria to Moritz (1874-1959) and Sara (née Reich, 1873-1954?). He had one brother, Adolph (later Anthony, b. 1908) and one sister, Golda (b. 1903?). Camillo received his law degree in Vienna, but was unable to find work there and moved to Lyon, France. He married Martha Kraus (1901-1969), daughter of Ludwig (1866-1942) and Marie Kraus (1875-1942), in 1933. ...

This is a groundbreaking study of an important and neglected topic--the systematic use of rape as a strategic weapon of the genocidal anti-Jewish violence, known collectively as pogroms, that erupted in Ukraine in the period between 1917 and 1921, and in which at least 100,000 Jews died and undocumented numbers of Jewish women were raped. The book is based on the in-depth study of the scores of narratives ...

The collection contains various documents of the Hungarian Radio and Telephone News Agency. The documents concern its general meetings, the activities of its executive committee, its directorate, the central administrative unit as well as of the screening committee that operated between 1945 and 1948. The collection also contains documents on the personnel of the Hungarian Radio and Telephone News ...