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When we think of Italian fashion, Gucci, Max Mara and the meteoric rise of Prada immediately spring to mind. But Italian fashion has a dark history that has not previously been explored. The Fascism of 1930's Italy dominated more than just politics - it spilled over into modes of dress. Fashion under Fascism is the first book to consider this link in detail. Fashion often functions as a tacit means ...

Bertha Wicks was born in 1893 to Paula and Samuel Schäffer in Poprad, Slovakia. She was the second of five children: Gisella (b. ca. 1890), Bertha, Szidi, Ethel [Etel, Etelka], and Jeno [Eugen], the youngest and only boy. Sometime around 1910, Bertha emigrated to the United States. Her sister, Szidi, who visited her around 1913, urged Bertha to return to Slovakia, but she refused. Bertha married Adolf ...

Contains a document summarizing the prisoner population at the Gusen concentration camp on May 3, 1945. According to the document on 3 May there were 21338 prisoners; 72 prisoners died and 21266 prisoners remained.

Contains correspondences and Red Cross messages between Elsie Ephraim, Hildegard Ephraim (mother), and Elizabeth Ephraim (sister) from June 1941-December 1942. Elsie orignally was a nurse in Berlin, Germany, but found refuge in England and worked for a hospital in London during the war. Hildegard and Elizabeth were deported to Theresienstadt where they both perished.

Margalit Ben Ami was born on October 9, 1937, as Gretha Dotsch in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She is the middle daughter of Samuel Dotsch (b. October 11, 1911) and Elisabeth Viskoop Dotsch (b. June 25, 1910). Samuel owned a leather goods workshop in which he produced handbags and belts. Elisabeth helped in the business, but she mainly took care of the children. The oldest daughter, Sonja, was born on January ...

Raul Hilberg is the most widely respected historian of the Holocaust. (His monumental three-volume The Destruction of the European Jews is recognized as the definitive work on the subject.) In this new book, the fruit of a lifetime's research and reflection, he carries the reader along with the narrative flow of the best fiction. Perpetrators Victims Bystanders is truth, but like a novel, it focuses ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

The Pinus Rubinstein collection consists of a diary, in three volumes, kept by Rubinstein from 1900 to 1949, and written primarily while he lived in Bukovina, in Czernowitz and Sadagora (Chernivtsi and Sadhora, Ukraine). The diaries begin with Rubinstein’s adolescent years in Sadagora, his service in the Austrian Army in World War I, his marriage and life in Czernowitz in the inter-war years, life ...

The photograph is a studio portrait of the Zelkowicz family. The photograph is hand-numbered in ink over each person depicted. Identified as follows: 1- Mother / Chaja; 2- Sister / Rochma; 3- Brother / Jeruchim; 4- Ichock; 5- Father / Jankel; 6- Brother / Szloma. Inscribed in ink on reverse but illegible due to paper glued to backing.