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This collection contains documents regarding the implementation of anti-Jewish legislation in Hungary as well as instructions given to various levels of public administration regarding Jewish matters in the years of worsening anti-Semitic discrimination prior to the mass deportations. Other records document disciplinary actions taken in extra-judicial ways. Moreover, the collection includes information ...

Bronka Harz Kurz was born in Nadvirna, Poland. He had one brother. The Kurz family moved to Kolomyja, Poland. During the German occupation all members of the family were beaten or harassed by the German soldiers. Bronka’s father was imprisoned but released after his mother bribed a soldier. The familys was forced to wear the Star of David and move into the ghetto. After bribing a soldier, Bronka, his ...

One common explanation for the world's failure to prevent the Holocaust is that the information about the Nazi extermination program seemed too incredible to believe. Fifty years later, Americans may now also find it difficult to believe that their fellow citizens were among the twelve million people murdered by the Nazis, abandoned to this fate by their own government. The outbreak of war in Europe ...

"Nigel Hamilton's Mantle of Command drew on years of archival research and interviews to portray FDR in a tight close up, as he determined Allied strategy in the crucial initial phases of World War II. Commander in Chief reveals the astonishing sequel--suppressed by Winston Churchill in his memoirs--of Roosevelt's battles with Churchill to maintain that strategy. Roosevelt knew that the Allies should ...

The amateur films shot by German infantryman Corporal Eugen Biedenbach of 419 Infantry Regiment record his training and active service in the German campaigns against Yugoslavia and on the southern sector of the Eastern Front. The films also containg pre- and post-war scenes of Biedenbach family life in Stuttgart (where the family of Eugen's wife owned a clothes store) as well as recreational activities. ...

"The Last Ghetto is the first in-depth analytical history of a prisoner society during the Holocaust. Terezín (Theresienstadt in German) was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East. Rather than depict the world of the prisoners as an atomized state of exception, it argues that ...

Contains three photographs pertaining to the donor's experiences in an orphanage in a Chateau at Bours outside of Marseille, France, run by the French government. The donor survivied the war in Russia living in Kazakstan and then was sent to children's home affiliated with the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement. He tried to immigrate to Palestine on the Exodus but was sent back to Germany and eventually ...

Consists of one memoir, 7 pages, entitled "Heldentum in Guers" (Heroism in Gurs), written by Dr. Ludwig Mann. In the memoir, Dr. Mann, who worked as an inmate doctor, relates his memories of "heroes" he encountered in the Gurs camp--people who cared for the sick or who volunteered to replace others on transports. The memoir is undated, but was written sometime before Dr. Mann's death in 1947.

(Paris 487) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 3, 1946. LS, prisoners' dock, chart at front of courtroom. Pan to Dieter Wisliceny testifying on the stand. Rear view, Col. Brukhard questioning Wisliceny on incidents dealing with SS and SD and the fate of 50,000 Jews. Wisliceny testifies (in German) that an order came from Eichmann to Brunner about the immediate deportation of all Jews from ...

A study based on lectures delivered by Solkoff, a psychologist, in the 1970s-80s, together with a historian, William Sheridan Allen, at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Focuses on psychological factors, but also discusses the complex ways politics, economics, culture, and social forces interacted with individual motivations in Germany to produce the Holocaust. Emphasizes the role of behavioral ...