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Werner Simsohn (1924-2001) was a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany. He was born in Berlin but grew up in Gera, Thuringia. He experienced the discrimination and persecution of Jews by the Nazi regime as a child and teenager. His father Julius Simsohn was initially imprisoned at Buchenwald concentration camp but returned home to Gera. Despite his 'Arian' wife's efforts to prevent her husband ...

[Publication of the] department of state, 1864. 510 p. ; 24 cm. + Met bijlagen.

In association with the European Jewish Publication Society. XX, 268 p., [16] p. pl. : ill. ; 24 cm

Consists of copies of articles from "The golden age" and "Yearbook of the Jehovah's Witnesses," and other publications concerning the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses, Protestants, and Jews from the beginning of Nazi rule through the years of the Holocaust. Some of the articles focus on the cooperation of the Catholic Church in the persecution of other Christian groups in Europe. Also included is ...

Consists of sets of identical mass-produced letters which were sent to members and prospective members of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, which was founded in New York in 1933. The letters discuss upcoming events, transmit publications (not included with the collection) and thank donors for funds raised.

Correspondence between the Insel-Verlag publishing company in Leipzig and the writer Stefan Zweig regarding the publication of his books, 1912-1937
 
 Diverse correspondence by the publisher with the writer (and during the later years, also with Stefan Zweig's wife, Friederike Maria Zweig) in Vienna and later on in Salzburg. The correspondence relates to the publication, proofreading and ...

Overdruk uit: Year book : publications of the Leo Baeck Institute ; 29. P. 73-101. : fig. ; 23 cm

"After World War II, tracing and documenting Nazi victims emerged against the background of millions of missing persons and early compensation proceedings. Over time, tracing bureaus and archives changed methods and policies and even expanded their activities, using historical documents for both research and public remembrance. This is the first publication to explore this multifaceted history of tracing ...

After World War II, tracing and documenting Nazi victims emerged against the background of millions of missing persons and early compensation proceedings. This was a process in which the Allies, international aid organizations, and survivors themselves took part. New archives, documentation centers and tracing bureaus were founded amid the increasing Cold War divide. They gathered documents on Nazi ...

Sh'erit ha-Pletah-The Jewish displaced persons called themselves the Sh'erit ha-Pletah, a Hebrew term of biblical origin meaning "Surviving Remnant" (שארית הפליטה) . The term was derived from the books of Chronicles, Ezra, and Nechemia and it referenced the Jews who remained in Israel after the destruction of the ancient Temple in Jerusalem (Ezra 9:14 and 1 Chronicles 4:43). Though the term had simultaneously ...

"Terror Flyers examines the "lynch justice" (Lynchjustiz) committed against American airmen in Nazi Germany during World War II. Using engaging first-person accounts of downed pilots, as well as previously unused primary sources, Terror Flyers challenges the notion that such lynchings were exclusively the domain of Nazi party officials and soldiers. New evidence reveals ordinary German people executed ...

This article examines Danish tourist brochures and other promotional material distributed in Germany from 1929-39. Through an analysis of a number of publications, it traces how the Tourist Association of Denmark invoked tourist imaginaries related to Nordic race theory and Nordic romanticism in the material in a variety of ways throughout the decade. Ultimately, however, it is shown that a certain ...