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In many respects they were an after-thought and a convenient reserve in the minds of those who ran the country and its armed forces at the outbreak of hostilities in both world conflicts. Because of the existing politics and prejudices they could not be used in a combatant capacity and were relegated to the more menial tasks and unimposing functions. Despite all this, they answered the call to duty ...

As World War I dragged on into 1915, German armies along the Western Front settled into stalemate with entrenched British and French forces. But in the East the picture was quite different. The Kaiser's army routed the Russians, took possession of Polish territory, and attempted to create a Polish satellite state. Elusive Alliance delves into Germany's three-year occupation of Poland and explains why ...

Contains selected manuscripts and typescripts related to the fate of the Jews and Poles during WWII in Russia, Palestine and Middle East. Includes records related to Jews in Palestine from Gdansk, desertion of Jews from the Polish Army, correspondence of Robert Pawlowski from Auschwitz, testimonies about Jews in the Polish Armed Forces, USSR and Palestine, and the memoirs of the anti-Semite of Dr. ...

Contains selected records relating to Jewish matters, cases of desertion of Jews from the Polish Army in Palestine, on the Middle East, the Jewish soldiers in the Polish Army in USSR, statistics, political background of the desertion phenomenon, its technical organization, protocols of investigation of deserters, the study in English relating to the atmosphere in the Polish Army in the UK towards Jews ...

Subject: Hitler's Collaborators focuses the spotlight on one of the most controversial and uncomfortable aspects of the Nazi wartime occupation of Europe: the citizens of those countries who helped Hitler. Although a widespread phenomenon, this was long ignored in the years after the war, when peoples and governments understandably emphasized popular resistance to Nazi occupation as they sought to ...

Rząd Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na uchodźstwie (Government of the Republic of Poland in Exile) was established after Germany and the Soviet Union occupied Poland in September 1939. The Polish government-in-exile was first based in Paris, but moved to London after the French army surrendered to the Germans in the mid-1940s. The Allied powers accepted the government-in-exile as the legitimate representative ...

Digital copy available as collection KD_01012 at Kazerne Dossin Research Centre

Edward Haven (born Edward Karol Rechtszafen) is the son of Ludwik Rechtszafen (later Louis Haven, 1901-ca 1956) and Bronislawa Rechtszafen (née Bart). He was born on October 28, 1933 in Warsaw, Poland where his father owned a leather factory and numerous real estate properties. They lived in an apartment located in a building belonging to Edward's paternal grandparents, Ignacy Maksimilian Rechtszafen ...

The collection has been digitized and are available online through the textual collections portal of the JDC Archives database.

The collection includes documents, correspondence, and photographs regarding the Holocaust experiences of Kurt and Hennie Reiner of Vienna, Austria including their emigration from Vienna in 1939 into Milan, Italy and Marseille, France; Kurt’s internment at Les Milles; and their immigration to the United States in 1940. Biographical material includes identification papers of Kurt and Hennie Reiner, ...