Chronicles the operations of the overseas branch of the Office of War Information; the Morale Operations Branch of the Office of Strategic Services; and the Psychological Warfare Unites serving the Allied forces in Europe, discussing how internal conflicts hampered their efforts during World War II. Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--American Univ., 1990. xvi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 ...

Anti-Jewish and anti-Allied forces Nazi propaganda leaflet acquired by Charles E. Pugh while he served as a United States paratrooper in France during World War II. These leaflets were dropped from planes over Paris in late 1943, as part of a German propaganda campaign to raise suspicions against the United States and its part in the worldwide Jewish conspiracy which threatened the safety of France ...

Copyright Holder: Ms. Kathy Pfister

Consists of correspondence, interview transcripts, notes, memoir materials, and other research materials gathered by Peter R. Black in preparation for his 1981 Columbia University PhD dissertation, "Ideological Commitment and Personal Politics in the Third Reich: The Case of Ernst Kaltenbrunner." Also includes a bound copy of unpublished research papers written by Black in the early 1970s, including ...

Canadian documentary film made by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as part of the wartime The World in Action series. "The War for Men's Minds" describes the impact of propaganda from the Axis powers in 1943 during World War II. Includes anti-Jewish graffiti and posters (10:59); Allied monitors listening to and transcribing foreign radio broadcasts; the German Propaganda Kompanie - an artist ...

Charles (Jeff) Scherz (1923-2012) was born August 31, 1923 in Rome, New York and grew up in West Leyden. He joined the US Army in December 1942. He landed on the Normandy beaches on D-Day and participated in the liberation of Paris, the Battle of the Bulge, and the liberation of Buchenwald.

Consists of one memoir, 15 pages, entitled "My Story of Life in Italy During the Holocaust," by Liliana Briefel, originally of Naples, Italy. The daughter of a Jewish father and a Christian-born mother, Liliana's mother and father arranged for Liliana and her siblings to be baptized as Catholics (and for their baptisms to predate1938) in order to protect them from anti-Jewish measures. In the memoir, ...

An American anti-war propaganda film produced by the U.S. Office of War Information to educate US soldiers before going to France. Some scenes are staged. Reel 4: Shows French POWs in a German camp, the Free French fleet and air squadrons, scuttled French warships in Toulon, and advancing Allied troops. French troops are reviewed by de Gaulle and in Great Britain, and Russian and French underground ...

Cyril Pearl (1906-1987) was an Australian journalist and writer. His book, "The Dunera Scandal. Deported by Mistake" describes the German refugees who were seeking asylum in England and were sent to Australia as an enemy alien and interned in Australia at the Hay internment camp. In 1941-42 three internment camps were constructed and utilized about three kilometers away from the township of Hay. Each ...

Handmade, Star of David patch on a black background that belonged to Pincu Kaiserman’s sister, likely Rosa, in Romania, sometime between September 10, 1941 and 1943. In September 1940, Romania fell under the rule of a radical military coalition led by General Antonescu and the Iron Guard, a fascist, anti-Semitic military group of Nazi collaborators. In November, Romania joined the Axis Alliance and ...

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 ...

This article compares Italian and German memory cultures of Fascism and Nazism using an analysis of Italian and West- and East-German satirical magazines published from 1943 to 1963. In the early post-war period, as a consequence of the anti-Fascist and anti-Nazi policies in Italy and in Germany that had been put into effect by the Allied occupation authorities, a significant part of the Italian and ...

Recounts the stories of 27 Jews from Swabia (mainly Augsburg) who fought the Nazis in the resistance movements of Germany (and of their European countries of refuge); in the Allied armies, and in the concentration camps, and of Swabians who aided and saved Jews. The introduction (pp. 9-16), "Jüdischer Widerstand in Europa", sketches Jewish resistance in the various countries of Europe. Includes bibliographical ...

George Stevens (December 18, 1904 – March 8, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer. During World War II, Stevens joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps and headed a film unit from 1943 to 1946 under General Eisenhower. His unit shot footage documenting D-Day — including the only Allied European Front color film of the war — the liberation of Paris and the meeting ...

Describes Jewish resistance in Germany and in all the occupied countries, uprisings in ghettos and concentration camps, Jewish partisan groups, the parachutists from Palestine, and Jews in the Allied armies. Much of the text consists of brief biographies of resistance fighters and excerpts from memoirs, chronicles, diaries, and other writings (most of them published previously in other languages). ...

Selected records on activities of the office of the Higher SS and Police Leader in the Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral (Operationszone Adriatisches Küstenland, OZAK), a district of Nazi Germany created in 1943 after Italian capitulation following the Allied invasion of Italy. Includes a fragmentary list of local residents detailed by German police. The area of the OZAK with its capital in ...

Letter hand-written in German by Albert Einstein datelined Princeton, October 10, 1938, addressed to his friend Dr. Michele Besso in Berne, Switzerland. In the letter, Einstein describes his attempts to help European Jews by issuing affidavits, his frustration over the fact that he can no longer issue affidavits for fear of endangering ones still pending, and his helplessness to further assist the ...

A hand-written letter from Albert Einstein, addressed to his sister Maja Winteler-Einstein, dated December 14, 1938, in which Einstein encourages his sister to visit him in America on a visitor’s visa and describes the relief work he is undertaking on behalf of persecuted victims of Nazi Germany.

This collection has been placed in the permanent care, custody, and control of the American Jewish Archives (AJA) by the donors of the collection. Questions concerning rights to use or publish materials from the collection should be addressed to the Executive Director of the AJA. For more information, see the American Jewish Archives copyright information webpage.

Sylvain Paul Zucker was born in Berchem, Antwerp, on 3 October 1913, as the son of diamond merchant Naftali Mozes alias Maurice Zucker and his wife Hena alias Helene Mire. Sylvain had two older brothers: Joseph (born on 16 March 1910 in Antwerp) and Adolf Isaac (born on 24 April 1912 in Antwerp). In 1913 the Zucker family moved to the Netherlands where a fourth son, named Jacques Theodoor, was born ...

The Clippings Archive of the Second Resistance, known since 1942 as the Czechoslovak Archives in New York, was part of the Czechoslovak Information Center in New York and is associated with the name of its founder, Arne Laurin. Thanks to him, a unique archive of clippings was created, gathering clippings mainly on foreign political and military events during the Second World War, on the situation in ...

Introduction : The past, the present and the future of war and culture studies / Debra Kelly. - War and culture studies in 2016 : putting 'translation' into the transnational? / Hilary Footitt. - The soldier's death in French culture : a Napoleonic case study / Ian Germani. - Writers' response to the architectural destructions of the Great War / Joëlle Prungnaud. - Picturing absence : photography ...

Some files from the Minister's cabinet have been saved, on the most important issues of foreign policy, as well as his correspondence and reports admitted from the Croatian embassies in other countries. A significant portion of the collection consists of the writings of the Political Department, relations with the Croatia's allied countries: Italy and Germany, as well as countries in the neighborhood. ...