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Margarita Shtromaite (Mara, later Lady Margaret Kagan) is the daughter of Jurgis (b. 1894) and Eugenia Shtromas (b. 1901). Margarita was born on July 12, 1924 in Riga, Latvia, and grew up in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania. Her younger brother, Alexandras (Alik), was born on April 14, 1931. Though their father was born in Lithuania, their mother, Eugenia, was born and raised in St. Petersburg, Russia. After ...

The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. But not until now has there been a memoir of life inside the camps written from the perspective of an actual employee of the Secret police. In this riveting memoir, superbly translated by Deborah Kaple, Fyodor Mochulsky describes being sent to work as a boss ...

Manfred Marcuse was born on April 17, 1927, in Berlin, Germany. His father, Bruno Marcuse, owned and ran a construction business. His mother, Hedwig Marcuse, was a homemaker who loved creating art. Although Hedwig was a Gentile, Manfred and his family observed Jewish holidays. Manfred had two half-siblings, a brother and a sister, from his father's previous marriage. In 1933, only months after Adolf ...

A large group is gathered outdoors in winter to watch skiers; a horse pulls several people on a sleigh, including Sonja de Kadt; close-up of Willie in her stroller and on a rocking horse

A biography of the founder of Holocaust "negationism", Paul Rassinier (1906-1967). In different periods of his life he was a pacifist, communist, socialist, and anarchist. During the Second World War, Rassinier was deported to concentration camps in Germany as a member of the resistance. After the war he returned to his hometown Belfort (Alsace) in a bid to become mayor of the town, but a Jewish communist ...

The Egon Weiss papers consist of a diary written by Egon Weiss describing his 1940 voyage on the SS Milos, the explosion of the SS Patria, his internment in the Atlit detainee camp, and the following years in Jerusalem as well as a scrapbook containing biographical material and photographs relating to the Weiss family from approximately 1890 to 2009. The collection also includes correspondence between ...

Ted Deutsch (1927-2008) was born Josef Tibor Deutsch in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia (now Mukachevo, Ukraine) on September 21, 1927 or 1929 to Armin (b. 1989) and Hedwig Deutsch (b. 1908). He and his parents and brother George (Gyuri) were deported from Sátoraljaújhely in 1944. His father and brother were killed at Auschwitz. His mother was transferred to Płaszów and then to the Markkleeberg subcamp of ...

Hermann Esser (1900-1981) was born in Rörmoos, Germany. His father was a civil servant. Esser volunteered for the German army and served during the later stages of World War I (1914-1918). After the war, he returned to Germany a radical socialist, and co-founded the German Workers Party with Anton Drexler in 1919. Later that year, the German army assigned Adolf Hitler to spy on the Party, which he ...

Although scientists were involved on a limited scale in the First World War, advances made in science and technology between the wars made them indispensable from 1939 to 1945. This was recognized by the Allies but not by the Germans or their partners, who had neglected scientific innovations, hoping to exploit their enemy's unpreparedness by a blitzkrieg. Consequently the Allies, with superior radar, ...