"This book employs archival research and statistical analysis on an original dataset of a summer 1941 wave of anti-Jewish pogroms to show that pogroms occurred not where antisemitism was strongest, but where local Jews challenged local non-Jews' dreams of national dominance". Includes bibliographical references and index. x, 173 Seiten : Diagramme

He was born in Pentre in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales, in 1920. He started working in Lloyds Bank in Bristol in 1938 and around that time he joined the Territoria! Army (Reserves). He initially joined the Gloucestershire Regiment which then became a Searchlight unit of the Royal Artillery after WW2 started. He spend the first years of the war in S. E England operating searchlights defending London ...

The Holocaust has too long been seen from a Western - often US-American - perspective. Here are international scholars with experience in Central and East European history and literature who look at the Holocaust in the context of the local conditions which shaped its memory and constructed the story. The work presented in the volume in fields of the humanities and social sciences is based on 1) the ...

Vivian David Lipman (1921-90) was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Magdalen and Nuffield Colleges, Oxford. He obtained a first class degree in 1941, followed by a DPhil in 1947, on `Problems of areas in English local government'. He served in the Royal Signals and Intelligence Corps, 1942-5. In 1947 Lipman entered the Ministry of Health and later served in the Ministries of Local Government ...

Simcha Bialowitz (1912) grew up in the shtetl of Izbica, a small Jewish community in eastern Poland. The Bialowitz family was observant. Simcha attend the Polish school, which had a few Jewish teachers. In the morning he would be in school, in the afternoon he would work in the local pharmacy and drugstore. When the Germans invaded, Izbica changed into a transitory ghetto. His father was murdered in ...

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This book investigates the demobilization and post-war readjustment of Red Army veterans in Leningrad and its environs after the Great Patriotic War. Over 300,000 soldiers were stood down in this war-ravaged region between July 1945 and 1948. They found the transition to civilian life more challenging than many could ever have imagined. For civilian Leningraders, reintegrating the rapid influx of former ...

Records related to the history of the Jewish Community of Osijek, and the Osijek region, Croatia, which includes the towns of Nasice, Donji Miholjac, Čepin, and Baranja county. This collection includes selected records from various archival collections related to the confiscation and nationalization of Jewish property (houses, shops, factories etc.), inventories of Jewish property, petitions of local ...

The main objective of the book is to allocate the grass roots initiatives of remembering the Holocaust victims in a particular region of Russia which has a very diverse ethnic structure and little presence of Jews at the same time. It aims to find out how such individual initiatives correspond to the official Russian hero-orientated concept of remembering the Second World war with almost no attention ...

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Richly illustrated book: there are more than hundred paintings, photographs and portraits of colonial leaders, entrepreneurs, local kings, battles, palaces, sawahs and colonial cities. 345 p. : illustrations

Hand-decorated family chest (adorned with Stars of David) which commemorates the Hirsch family's service to Hungary during World War I. Local shop owner Bela Hirsch was deported from Rascruci (Keresztut), Romania in 1944 to Auschwitz, where he was murdered. Before his deportation, he gave the chest to a non-Jewish neighbor for safekeeping. Donated by local resident Zoltan Kallos (who gave an oral history ...

There were up to three hundred documents by 2022. The collection included memoirs of the village's residents - concentration camp inmates, and diaries about the Holocaust (about 10 original diaries that did not survive the occupation ща 2022). Nothing from this part of the collection concerning the Jewish history of the village survived the Russian occupation in 2022. Citation: “There were records ...

Documents issued by Jewish communities from all parts of Yugoslavia.The fonds preserves the history of many local Jewish communities of Yugoslavia, mainly concerning the period between the end of WWII and the fall of Yugoslavia in 1990.

Index. xi, 306 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Contains records relating to the renaming of streets; expropriation of Jewish property; discriminatory regulations against Jews at work and in public places; financial support for schools; local political issues; and statistics from the local registry office. Also contains correspondence, certificates, and other documents such as: birth, marriage, and death certificates; and local correspondence (claims) ...

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"During two terrifying days and nights in early September 1941, the lives of nearly two thousand men, women, and children were taken savagely by their neighbors in Kulen Vakuf, a small rural community straddling today's border between northwest Bosnia and Croatia. This frenzy--in which victims were butchered with farm tools, drowned in rivers, and thrown into deep vertical caves--was the culmination ...

M.41 - Documentation from Archives in Belorussia, 1920-1995
 
 The M.41 Record Group includes documentation from the State Archives and the Archives of Public Associations (the Archives of the Former Communist Party) in Belorussia. Most of the documentation relates to the history of the Holocaust and the war in Belorussia during 1941-1945. There is also documentation related to the history ...

Met lit. opg. en reg. 411 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-292) and index. xxvi, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.