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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution And Peace

  1. Irma C. Erman Papers

    Correspondence, writings, personal documents, printed matter, photographs, and art objects, relating to German Jewish emigre affairs, the history of antisemitism, and Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution. Includes two plays dramatizing the actions of Paul Gruninger, a Swiss police captain, and Mitsugi Shibata, a Japanese official, in saving the lives of Jewish refugees in Austria and China, respectively, during World War II.

  2. Joan Abramson: A Page of Glory

    Fictionalized account of the persecution of Jews in Warsaw and elsewhere in Poland during World War II.

  3. Dorothy Thompson Misecellaneous Papers

    Correspondence, memoranda, and press releases, relating to fundraising in the United States for the defense of Herschel Grynszpan, Jewish refugee and assassin of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath in France in 1938.

  4. American Jewish Alternatives to Zionism records

    Correspondence, speeches and writings, press releases, and printed matter, relating to Jewish-Arab relations in the Middle East.

  5. Alfred M. Lilienthal Papers

    Speeches and writings, correspondence, notes, memoranda, press releases, serial issues, conference papers, interviews, studies, clippings, other printed matter, photographs, and sound recordings, relating to the Middle East, Arab-Israeli relations, and American foreign policy in the region.

  6. Die "Reichspogromnacht" in Bremen-Nord

    Relates to Kristallnacht persecution of Jews in Bremen, 1938. Paper entered in the Schulerwettbewerb deutsche Geschichte um den Preis des Bundesprasidenten. Includes material describing the competition.

  7. William W. Brickman papers

    Speeches and writings, correspondence, notes, reports, syllabi, bibliographies, curricular materials, serial issues, textbooks, and other printed matter, relating to the history and philosophy of education, education in various countries, Jewish education, and Jewish history. Includes photocopies of correspondence of William C. Bagley. Indexes: Preliminary inventory.

  8. Margaret Eleanor Fait Papers

    Reports, dispatches, memoranda, correspondence, and printed matter, relating to relief aid to displaced persons in Germany at the end of World War II, and to Jewish refugees in transit to Palestine.

  9. Hryhorij Nestor Rudenko-Rudolph Papers

    Writings, pamphlets, serial issues, and miscellanea, relating to the history and philosophy of anarchism. Includes a book-length study by H. N. Rudenko-Rudolph, expounding anarchism, and tracing the nineteenth and twentieth century history of the movement, especially in the United States, Russia and Spain.

  10. Swarthmore College Collection

    Pamphlets, bulletins, serial issues, reports, and other printed matter, relating to peace, disarmament, international relations, World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Vietnamese War, the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, civil liberties in the United States, and the espionage case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell. Collected by Swarthmore College.

  11. James F. Tent Papers

    Reports, memoranda, studies, correspondence, minutes, conference proceedings, and interview transcripts, relating to educational policy and denazification in the American occupied zone of Germany after World War II, the establishment of the Freie Universität Berlin, and Nazi persecution of persons of partial Jewish ancestry. Includes photocopies of records of the Education and Cultural Relations Division of the United States Office of Military Government for Germany, 1945-1949, and photocopies of Nazi police files. Used as research material for the books by J. F. Tent, Mission on the Rhine:...

  12. Walter Hirschfeld Correspondence

    Relates to the expulsion of Walter Hirschfeld from the Verband der Arzte Deutschlands, in accordance with Nazi regulations, on grounds of non-Aryan descent. Includes two letters, 1941, relating to his subsequent emigration to the United States.

  13. Die jüdische Kultusgemeinde in Prag

    Relates to demographic characteristics, and social, cultural and other organizations, of the Jewish community in Prague and surrounding areas. Includes charts.

  14. Paul Findley Papers

    Writings, notes, interview transcripts, correspondence, printed matter, and sound recordings, relating to relations between Israel and the United States, American foreign policy in the Middle East, and lobbying activities on behalf of Israel in the United States. Includes research material gathered for use in They Dare to Speak Out.

  15. J. C. Hurewitz Papers

    Correspondence, writings, notes, government documents, pamphlets, reports, memoranda, serial issues, and statutes, relating to diplomatic relations of and domestic conditions in various countries of the Middle East and North Africa, mainly during the period 1945-1960; American and British foreign policy in the Middle East; Palestine and the Zionist movement; and the Suez Canal. Includes statutes of Afghanistan, 1931-1957, in Persian, with translations; Zionist and some anti- Zionist literature from the interwar Period and the period of formation of the Israeli state; reports of the United S...

  16. Moisei Aaronovich Krol' Writings

    Relates to revolutionary movements in Russia, especially the Partiia Sotsialistov-Revoliutsionerov, the Russian Revolution and Civil War in Siberia, Russian emigre life in China and France, and Jewish and other ethnic groups in Russia. Includes the unpublished second volume of the memoirs of M. A. Krol', Stranitsy Moei Zhizni (first volume published, New York, 1944).

  17. Hanover College Collection

    Pamphlets relating to national socialism in Germany, Nazi persecution of Jews, Jewish-Arab conflict regarding Palestine, Japanese participation in World War II, the Korean War, foundation of the Irish state, and other issues. Collected by Hanover College Library.

  18. Fryderyk Topolski: Wspomienia i ludzie. Kronika wydarzen

    Relates to the Polish communist movement, the deportation of Poles to the Soviet Union in 1939-1941, engineering and industrial activities in Soviet-occupied Poland and the Soviet Union during World War II and in postwar Poland, and antisemitism in postwar Poland.

  19. Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zürich Collection

    Protocols of meetings, bulletins, statutes, programs, statements, position papers, pamphlets, and printed matter, relating primarily to the Swiss organizations Eidgenossische Gemeinschaft and Gotthard-Bund, Swiss preparations for resistance to a possible German invasion during World War II, and proposals for political and social reform in Switzerland during and after the war. Consists primarily of duplicate issuances of the Eidgenossische Gemeinschaft and the Gotthard-Bund collected by the Archiv fur Zeitgeschichte of the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zürich.

  20. Der Bericht der Internationalen Historikerkommission

    Relates to activities of Kurt Waldheim (subsequently president of Austria and Secretary-General, United Nations, 1972-1982) as a German officer in Yugoslavia and Greece during World War II, and especially to allegations of participation in war crimes by Waldheim. Includes subsequent printed version of report.