Scenes from the celebration of the 450th anniversary of the founding of the town of Schneeberg. SA men on horseback carry banners with the town's symbol on it. Close-ups on a parade float show a caricature of a Jew paying wages to a German citizen. In the other hand the "Jew" holds a bill of huge denomination. A caption along the bottom of the float states: The Jew led the nation into hunger, poverty, ...

"Like Anne Frank, Flory Van Beek was a young girl caught in the ruthless Nazi occupation of Holland. But Flory survived to recount this extraordinary story of persecution and survival. Flory and her husband, Felix, endured the sinking of a ship bound for safety in the New World, the increasing danger of the occupation, and finally a life in hiding. There, cut off from the outside world and their families, ...

A sequel to Freeman's "Job: The Story of a Holocaust Survivor" (1996), presents the terrible account of a death march from 16 March-26 April 1945 from the Spaichingen labor camp to Fussen. Freeman, who was born in 1915 in Radom, Poland, lost his family in the Holocaust and was sent to many labor camps, including Schömberg and Spaichingen. He was one of 1,500 prisoners sent on the death march from ...

In the aftermath of civil war, Spain witnessed a period known as the 'Years of Hunger', which would extend throughout the postwar years (1939-52). The dictatorship would lay the blame on external factors, although the causes for the collapse of living conditions and food supply over that time lay in its autarkic policies. This article attempts to show that Spain was victim of a famine as a consequence ...

This book presents World War II and the American Occupation of Japan as experienced in Oita Prefecture through first-hand accounts of 40 Japanese men and women who lived through the war as students, midwives, nurses, teachers, journalists, soldiers, sailors, Kamikaze pilots, munitions factory workers, and housewives. Their stories of spirited support for the war, to loss of friends from American air ...

"Violence is a fact of human life. This book trace the social roots of the extraordinary processes of human destruction involved in mass violence throughout the twentieth century. Christian Gerlach shows that terms such as 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' are too narrow to explain the diverse motives and interests that cause violence to spread in varying forms and intensities from killings and expulsions ...

Publisher's description: The many powerful accounts of the Holocaust have given rise to women's voices, and yet few researchers have analyzed these perspectives to learn what the horrifying events meant for women in particular and how they related to them. In Experience and Expression, the authors take on this challenge, providing the first book-length gendered analysis of women and the Holocaust, ...

The Depsztok and Apelojg families correspondence includes letters exchanged among members of the Depsztok and Apelojg families in Warsaw, Poland, and the Szlomo and Syma Depsztok family in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Most of the letters date between 1936 and 1939, and postcards from the Warsaw ghetto are dated 1941. The Warsaw relatives ask about the possibility of making a living in Argentina, thank ...

The Wolf Baumgarten papers consist of biographical materials documenting Baumgarten's Polish repatriation and the lives and deaths of his family members; correspondence between Baumgarten and his family and friends regarding their experiences in Prztytk, the Łódź and Szydłowiec ghettos, and the Soviet Union; scrip from the Łódź ghetto; photographs of Izak Baumgarten in Łódź, a burning synagogue, a ...

The Tsilya Tochilnikov papers consist of personal narratives and photographs documenting Tsilya's flight from Voznesensk, Ukraine, during World War II and the loss of relatives killed in the war and in the Holocaust. The narratives describe Tsilya’s happy early life in Voznesensk, fleeing from German bombs in 1941 on a long and arduous journey, finding refuge in Tbilisi, learning her relatives had ...

"Between Romania's entry into World War II in 1941 and the ouster of dictator Ion Antonescu three years later, over 105,000 Jews were forced to work in internment and labor camps, labor battalions, government institutions, and private industry. Particularly for those in the labor battalions, this period was characterized by extraordinary physical and psychological suffering, hunger, inadequate shelter, ...

Pesl Pola Melamed Dichter was born in December 1923 in Rozyszcze, Poland (now Roz︠h︡yshche, Ukraine). The Melamed family was forced into a ghetto in late 1941, together with about 4,000 other Jews. They suffered terrible hunger and slave labor. Pesl’s father, Motl Melamed, was murdered by the Germans in the spring of 1942. The ghetto was liquidated in August 1942, and most of the residents were shot ...

Albert Keuter, (1892-1944) was a Mennonite minister born in Blokzijl, Netherlands, to Barend and Wilhelmina Keuter. He married Elisabeth van der Lee in 1917, and they lived in the Hague with their five children: Barend Klaas (Jons, 1918-1944), Cornelia (Corrie, b. 1919), Elisabeth (Beppie, b. 1924), Willem (Wim, b. 1928), and Alberdina (Appie, b. 1936). Following the German occupation during World ...

This diary of an anonymous young man was written on the blank pages and in the margins of the novel "Les vrais riches", alternately in English, Polish, Hebrew, and Yiddish. (A facsimile is appended on pp. 101-159.) He describes the torments of hunger and expresses the despair that makes him wish for his own death and the destruction of the whole world. News of the alleged assassination of Hitler and ...

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During the Italian occupation in the USSR, the soldiers of Italian armed forces often had relationships with Soviet women, opposed by the authorities for motives of politics and security. Some of the officers openly practiced concubinage, in contrast to the racsim expressed on that campaign. The authorities in situ also decided to open brothels fort he troops, filled with local women, in order to avoid ...

Meneer is opgegroeid in een gezin met vader, moeder, broer en zus. Zijn vader was smid en werkte bij RDM. Zijn ouders werden in 1942 lid van de oud-gereformeerde gemeente. Meneer leed aan astma en werd na bemiddeling door het Rode Kruis in november 1945 uitgezonden naar Zwitserland, waar hij eerst drie weken in een speciaal kamp verbleef om aan te sterken. Vervolgens ging hij met zijn 'pleegmoeder' ...

Mevrouw heeft de hele oorlog in een bovenhuis op de Galileistraat gewoond. Ze trok het meest op met haar anderhalf jaar oudere broer. Ze beschrijft hoe ze de twee bombardementen op Rotterdam, de oorlogsjaren en de bevrijding heeft ervaren. Na een medische keuring werd ze uitgezonden naar Engeland. Via Londen kwam ze in een kamp in Pontefract terecht, daarna bij een pleeggezin in Upholland nabij Wigan. ...

"At least 200,000 people died from hunger or malnutrition-related diseases in Spain during the 1940s. This book provides a political explanation for the famine and brings together a broad range of academics based in Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia to achieve this. Topics include the political causes of the famine, the physical and social consequences, the ways Spaniards tried ...

The Welt im Film [World in Film] newsreel series was produced by the American and British military governments to support the denazification campaign in Germany and Austria. Screening was compulsory in cinemas in the American and British zones of Germany until the late 1940s.

Theodor Alexandrovich Sirkis (1913-1997) was born in a Black Sea port town near Odessa (Kyastitsa?). His wife, Frida Berkovna Gore (1920-1976) was born in Orhei, a small town near Kishinev (Chișinău). They met in Iasi in 1939 while studying medicine at the university. In November 1941 the family was evacuated from Moldova to Salsk (Rostov oblast) and Tyulkubas (Kazakhstan). Theodor, Frida, and Frida’s ...

Meneer heeft de hongerwinter in Schiedam doorgebracht. In mei 1946 werd hij, een jaar na de bevrijding, uitgezonden naar Uithuizen, in de provincie Groningen. Daar kwam hij terecht bij de voorzitter van het plaatselijk comit?. Het pleeggezin Wierenga bestond uit vader, moeder en twee dochters die vanwege de kostschool alleen in het weekend thuis waren. Meneer voelde zich niet echt welkom in het pleeggezin, ...