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The Holocaust was not only the largest genocidal operation in 20th century Hungarian history, but also a gigantic campaign to systematically rob the wealth of Hungarian Jewry. In Hungary, the Europe-wide campaign of robbery usually referred to by the name of Aryanization had various initiators and a large segment of benefactors in society while it was also planned as a state-directed and -controlled ...

Traces the antecedents of the conspiracy theory, noting that early versions related to Masons or Jews separately but later these were commonly seen as colluding. Surveys the publications and organizations which propagated the theory in Weimar Germany. Describes Nazi persecution of Jews and Masons after 1933 and the central place of the conspiracy theory in Nazi ideology and propaganda; the latter was ...

"The Holocaust is much discussed, much memorialized, and much portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked. Spanning the entirety of the Holocaust, this sweeping history deepens our understanding. Dan Stone - Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London--reveals how the idea of "industrial murder" is incomplete: many were killed ...

The collection consists of eighteen original photographs depicting Sandor Berko and his family before the war in Tiszalök, Hungary; his father in a forced labor battalion; Sandor and others in displaced persons camps in Germany and Austria; after the war in Tiszalök and in Sweden; and one Ketubah (marriage contract) of Sandor 's parents-in-law.

This study examines the particular (but not exclusive) relationship between violent intimacy and Nazi and Hutu genocidal propaganda in relation to national desires. It focuses on the fears of the 'double' (the close stranger) as projected in language in order to point to the 'anxiety of intimacy' as a dangerous social space that under specific historical and political conditions can turn into genocide. ...

The collection consists of four photographs of Romana Strochlitz Primus as a baby, her parents, Sigmund and Ruzka (Rose) Grinburg Strochlitz, and other refugees at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp in Germany after World War II.

Greta Beer was born in 1921 in Cernauti, Romania, the daughter of Siegfried and Rachelle (née Gutter) Deligdisch. She had one brother, Otto. Siegfried had trained as a pharmacist, but became an industrialist and the owner of Hercules, the largest textile mill in Romania. The family was very wealthy, and Greta studied first at a Romanian lyceum and then at a then finishing school in Switzerland. The ...

Testimony, 3 pages, typescript, answered in form of questionnaire, with other correspondence and a photograph. Concerns Sidney Newman's experiences at Auschwitz and Mauthausen as a Jew, as he was then not a Freemason but later told his story at the request of fellow Masons.