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William Herskovic (1914‐2006) was born in Fišar (near Vrbnica, in what was then Hungary and is now Slovakia) and moved to Antwerp, Belgium, in 1929. He worked as a portrait photographer until his business was confiscated in 1942. He attempted to flee Europe with his wife, Esther, and their daughters, Katie and Germaine, but they were caught in Angoulême, France, and deported via Drancy on convoy 32. ...

This volume is first consistent effort to systematically analyze the features and consequences of colonial repatriation in comparative terms, examining the trajectories of returnees in six former colonial countries (Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Portugal). Each contributor examines these cases through a shared cultural sociology frame, unifying the historical and sociological ...

Consists of correspondence from members of the family of Ludwig and Dora Horringer Kessler of Vienna, Austria, to distant relatives, the Levy family, in the United States. The correspondence documents the desperation of the Kesslers to leave Europe and the efforts of the Levys (and their relatives) to bring the family to the United States. The correspondence dates from July 1938 to the Kesslers' arrival ...

Studies of the causes of war generally presuppose a "realist" account of motivation: when statesmen choose to wage war, they do so for purposes of self-preservation or self-aggrandizement. In this book, however, David Welch argues that humans are motivated by normative concerns, the pursuit of which may result in behavior inconsistent with self-interest. He examines the effect of one particular type ...

Memoirs of a Polish Jewish journalist who spent the war years underground in Paris as head of the Jewish section of the French Communist Party. In 1949 he returned to Poland but became disillusioned with communism, partly because of anti-Jewish measures in 1950-53. Includes index. 322 pages ; 24 cm

The Kornspan family collection consists of documents, photographs, and correspondence from Leon and Mendel Kornspan and others from Poland and Palestine to Fannie Ebert and her husband Sam. Fannie and her brother Joseph (Yusha) immigrated to the United States before 1926 but Mendel and Leon did not, and they did not survive.

The Herschkowitz family papers contain primarily Holocaust-era documents related to Bezales Herschkowitz, a furrier in Paris who was imprisoned by the Nazis at Dachau, and his family. The documents relate mostly to his internment, and include political deportee cards, certificates, and repatriation cards. Also included are Bezales’ military documents, medical diagnosis, and documents concerning compensation ...

Memoirs of a Jew (née Klára Gesmay), born in 1910 in Budapest. In 1930 she married Imre Rajk, who was born a Jew but had converted to Unitarianism, which she did as well. They had a son (b. 1932) and a daughter (b. 1936). With the Nazi occupation in March 1944, Rajk and her family were interned in a "Jewish house", together with members of their extended families - 25 persons in a five-room flat. ...

Willie de Kadt and another toddler play with a tricycle outdoors, they plant a Dutch flag; one pets a sleeping dog and smiles at the camera. Dutch newsprint announcing the opening of a new factory in De Rijp, Netherlands.

Basha Schachter (Shaechter) was born on September 10, 1941, in Bukaczowce, Galicia, Poland (Bukachivtsi, Ukraine), to a Jewish couple, Filip and Janina Hirsch Schachter. The village was in the eastern region which was placed under Soviet control following the September 1939 invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Filip was born on June 23, 1914, in Krakow, to Joseph (b. 1885) and Pesia ...