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The head of Indonesia's best known science institute, Eijkman Instituut, was accused of contaminating vaccines and executed by Japanese forces in 1945 ; new evidence suggests he was innocent.

Leo Herman Frijda (1923-1943) executed by Nazi firing squad as a resistance fighter on 1 October 1943, aged twenty. 223 pagina's. ; 23 cm.

The name Klaus Barbie has become synonymous with the evils of the Nazi era. As a 29-year-old Gestapo lieutenant in Lyon, France, during WWII, Barbie wielded enormous power in his brutal oppression of French Resistance fighters and Jews. Barbie is also suspected of having had a role in the Bolivian coup d'état orchestrated by Luis García Meza in 1980. After the fall of the dictatorship, Barbie no longer ...

A biography of Mala Zimetbaum, a Belgian Jewish woman, who was born in 1918 in Brzesko, Poland. In 1928 her family immigrated to Belgium. She was deported in 1942 from Antwerpen to Auschwitz, where she was active in Jewish resistance; she helped many of her fellow prisoners in the camp and even saved the lives of some of them. In 1944 she managed to escape with her friend, Edward Galiński, a Polish ...

"On November 4-5, 2008, an estimated 150 people were killed in the town of Kiwanja in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, half a mile away from United Nations peacekeeping forces. The event marks one of the worst killing sprees in North Kivu in the past two years. Most of those killed were summarily executed by forces of rebel commander Laurent Nikunda's National Congress for the Defense of People ...

Describes the deportation of Jews from all the countries under German occupation or influence, in particular the role of the SS-men - mainly Austrians - of Eichmann's Section IV B 4. Most of them began their careers with Eichmann in the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung in Vienna, where their success, aided by the antisemitism of the populace, brought them the reputation of experts. Subsequently ...

Between 1966 and 1980, the War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan (now the Center for Military History of the National Institute for Defense Studies) published the 102-volume "Senshi Sosho" (War History Series). These volumes give a detailed account of the operations of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War. Volume 3 of the series, ...

Memoirs of a Romanian Jewish woman, relating the fate of 24 members of her family during the Holocaust. The family lived in Cimpulung, Bukovina, from 1856. Ten family members perished in the Holocaust: four were murdered in Auschwitz, two were shot at a site near the river Bug, two were executed by the Russians, and two died in Transnistria. Bercovici-Korber was deported as a young girl in October ...

Describes the roundup in Paris on 16-17 July 1942, mainly based on survivors' testimonies. 27,388 foreign Jews were to be arrested in Paris according to the card-index prepared by French authorities. During this "Action", executed by 9,000 French policemen, 12,884 Jews were arrested (among them 4,051 children) and brought to the Vel d'Hiv stadium. Describes the conditions of existence in the Vel d'Hiv ...

In Germany, forced labor as a component of a new strategy of persecution was discussed in fall 1938, and applied in the entire Reich after the "Kristallnacht" pogrom. 190,000 Jews lived in Austria at the time, 90% of them in Vienna. The persecution of Austrian Jews was executed with particular violence. Terror, confiscation of Jewish property, arbitrary Aryanization, and mass dismissals characterized ...

Examines the activities of the Baum resistance group and relates the fate of some of its members, based on archival material and interviews with friends and relatives. The communist-oriented group, led by Herbert Baum, was formed mainly by young Jews who, from 1940, were forced to work at the Siemens firm in Berlin. Gradually the activities of the group turned into resistance against the Nazis. In ...

"This book deals with one of most controversial issues of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939): the "Red Terror." Approximately 50,000 Spaniards were extrajudically executed in Republican Spain following the failure of the military rebellion in July 1936. This mass killing of "fascists" seriously undermined attempts by the legally constituted Republican government to present itself in foreign quarters ...