Genocide and ethnic cleansing

The first eye-witness account ever published of life in the Warsaw GhettoMary Berg was fifteen when the German army poured into Poland in 1939.

Walter Wolff was the son of a Jewish merchant family that fled their German home when the Nazis came to power and took refuge in Brussels, Belgium.

The first eye-witness account ever published of life in the Warsaw GhettoMary Berg was fifteen when the German army poured into Poland in 1939.

Holocaust denial, racism, genocide of indigenous peoples and the long-lasting harms inflicted by colonialism pose deep challenges to any idea of a common humanity.

The Israeli destruction of Gaza has returned the idea of genocide to the centre of world politics, with sharp conflicts between protesters and lawyers who invoke it and governments and media that deny it.

The Israeli destruction of Gaza has returned the idea of genocide to the centre of world politics, with sharp conflicts between protesters and lawyers who invoke it and governments and media that deny it.

During World War II, thousands of Moldovan Jews were imprisoned in the Obodovka ghetto, located in the Romanian-occupied part of Ukraine.

First published in Yiddish in 1946 and translated into Spanish in 2001, this is the first time that Malka Owsianys story is available in English.

Building Bridges Among Abrahams Children honors the extraordinary career of Professor Michael Berenbaum, a luminary in Holocaust studies, museum design, filmmaking, and interfaith dialogue.

Many black soldiers serving in the U.

Die Kategorie "Genozid" ist ohne Frage eine Verhandlungssache - rechtlich und geschichtspolitisch.

Escaping Hell is the compelling and true story of a heroic young Polish officer who survived the terror of five years in the prisons of Auschwitz and Buchenwald - where violence was meaningless because human life had lost all value.

This is the gripping story of how one man's half-century of service and devotion helped build and develop the Hastings & Prince Edward Regiment; and how that regiment played a vital role in Canada's efforts during the Second World War.

World War II made enormous and unprecedented demands upon the nation's civil service administration.

In November 1942, Paul Andrew Kennedy (19121993) boarded the St.

Although it has been overshadowed by other events of the Second World War, Canada's role in the Italian Campaign, from 1943 to 1945, was significant.

Soziologische Forschungen zu kollektiver Gewalt haben Genozide bis heute selten explizit in den Fokus genommen.

For 16-year-old Jan Kamienski, life as he knows it ends when Germany invades Poland on September 1, 1939.

Bravery, patriotism, and sacrifice marked the women caught up in conflict during the Second World War.

Contrasts between fighter combat and the bombers' war support Klinkowitz's belief that notions of the air war were determined by one's position in it.

Now in its ninth edition, A History of Modern Germany provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of this complex country's history, beginning in 1871 and ending in the present day.

The Lion and the Star not only offers an informed glimpse into the intricacies of daily German life but also confirms the continuing danger of making sweeping generalizations about German Jews and non-Jews.

Private Jack Poolton was among the Canadians landing at the disastrous raid on Dieppe.

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At a time of great sacrifice in Canadian history, we are welcomed into the homes, the hearts, and the minds of mothers, sons, fathers, and friends as we follow Syd Smith and his high-school brotherhood of 13 when they answer the call to duty in 1941.

In 1941, the fortress city of Terezin, outside Prague, was ostensibly converted into model ghetto, where Jews could temporarily reside before being sent to a more permanent settlement.

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The Spanish Civil War, begun in July 1936, was a preliminary round of World War II.

Die letzte Folge meiner Familiengeschichte, angefangen mit den Feldpostbriefen meines Vaters, der Inhaftierung meines Großvaters wegen angeblicher Vorbereitung zum Hochverrat und der Biographie unserer Familie und der meiner eigenen, möchte ich schließen mit dem Versuch, den Lebensweg zweier mit meiner Familie befreundeten jüdischen Menschen aufzuzeigen, die unter der Gewaltherrschaft der Nationalsozialisten gelitten haben und zu Opfern wurden.

Im Nürnberger Ärzteprozess wurde Wolfram Sievers für die unter seiner Verantwortung im Institut für wehrwissenschaftliche Zweckforschung begangenen Medizinverbrechen zum Tode verurteilt.

Das populäre Bild der Wehrmacht ist auch 70 Jahre nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs positiv besetzt.

Bereits Kinder und Teenager werden in ihrer Freizeit, auf dem Schulhof oder in der zunehmend digitalen Lebenswelt mit Antisemitismus konfrontiert.

In November 1942, Paul Andrew Kennedy (19121993) boarded the St.

Many artists have fought in wars, and renowned painters have recorded heroic scenes of great battles, but those works were usually done long after the battles were waged.

Toda época de la historia trajo consigo exilio y emigración, pero en el siglo XX, la "emigración" se convirtió en un fenómeno mundial que se debió, en gran medida, a la persecución, expulsión y fuga de las personas afectadas sobre todo por los efectos del acenso del Nacionalismo.

The attitude of the Catholic church, its bishops, priests and members from 1933 to 1945 is still one of the most controversial topics of contemporary history.

Wie kann man erlittene Gewalt und Massenmord in den unterschiedlichen Lagern erzählen und eine adäquate Sprache dafür finden, die das Erlittene weder banalisiert noch als überwunden beruhigend automatisiert?

A profoundly moving celebration of love under the darkest of circumstances from the author of The NineFrom the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbruck concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable.

This book takes a close look at crime fiction set in the interwar period and during the reign of terror of the Nazi regime.

This book takes a close look at crime fiction set in the interwar period and during the reign of terror of the Nazi regime.

Le 9 novembre 1970, alors qu'il peregrine dans les flammes du Purgatoire, Charles de Gaulle a une surprise de taille en tombant nez a nez avec Petain qui attend depuis plus de dix-neuf ans son entretien avec Dieu le Pere.

The extraordinary true story of the sisters who saved each other.

1919, debut d'une nouvelle etape dans les relations judeo-chretiennes qui va se prolonger jusqu'a la seconde guerre mondiale et au-dela.

Thayer Soule couldn't believe his orders.

Du 28 janvier au 13 fevrier 1939, 500 000 republicains espagnols et leurs familles s'enfuient vers la France.

Theodor Eicke, gescheiterter Unterzahlmeister des Ersten Weltkriegs, wurde erst zum Kommandanten des KZ Dachau, dann zu einem der fanatischsten SS-Generale, ehe er 1943 den Tod an der Ostfront fand.