Kategoria BISAC: History >> Eastern Europe - General

The following book was translated and published in English: Ewa Kurek, "YOUR LIFE IS WORTH MINE - How Polish Nuns Saved Hundreds of Jewish Children in German-Occupied Poland," foreword by Prof. Jan Karski, New York 1998. She has also contributed articles in English that were published in Polin (Oxford: Institute for Polish Jewish Studies), Embracing the Other (New York University Press) and From Shtetl to Socialism (LondonWashington). Her research on the subject of Polish-Jewish relations in World War II in Poland has been presented at several international academic congresses, including...

"Border Crossings" is the well-told and dramatic story of a young man whose comfortable life is abruptly transformed by the savagery of World War II. Forced to rely on primal instincts and his familiarity with the rugged highlands of Moravia, Charles Novacek casts his lot first with the anti-Hitler Underground and then with the resistance to the Nazis Communist successors. My recollections pain me, he writes, still, they have made me who I am. Novacek s experience as a Hungarian-speaking Czecho-Slovak patriot demonstrates the...

"Border Crossings is the well-told and dramatic story of a young man whose comfortable life is abruptly transformed by the savagery of World War II. Forced to rely on primal instincts and his familiarity with the rugged highlands of Moravia, Charles Novacek casts his lot first with the anti-Hitler Underground and then with the resistance to the Nazis' Communist successors. "My recollections pain me," he writes, "still, they have made me who I am." Novacek's experience as a Hungarian-speaking Czecho-Slovak patriot...

Das vorliegende Buch behandelt die Bewegungsphase der rumaneschen -Legion Erzengel Michael-, zumeist als -Eiserne Garde- bekannt. Nach ihrer zeitweiligen blutigen Unterdruckung (Ende 1938) wurde sie im weiteren Verlauf vor ihrer endgultigen Zerschlagung im Jahr 1941 kurzfristig auch zur herrschenden Regimepartie. Formal von ihrem Anfuhrer Corneliu Zelea-Codreanu erst 1927 gegrundet, reichen die Anfange bis in die Zeit nach den Ersten Weltkriegs zuruck. Als faschistische Bewegung waren die Legionare auf dem Hohepunkt ihrer Popularitat gegen 1937/38 auch parteipolitisch breit verankert....

Switzerland was not content to stay on the sidelines of the CSCE (Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe) negotiations. Particularly in the area of human rights policies and by applying its talent for successful mediation between East and West, Switzerland achieved great recognition, as Philip Rosin's thoroughly researched and methodologically persuasive study clearly reveals.

The first mass killings of the Romanian Holocaust in late June to early July 1941 brutally claimed thousands of victims and marked the beginning of the government's plan to "cleanse the land" of Jews. Moreover, of all the Third Reich's allies, only Romania undertook its genocide campaign without the intervention of Himmler's SS. In The Origins and Onset of the Romanian Holocaust, author Henry Eaton traces the historical path to this tragedy by examining both Romania's antisemitic history and looking at the initial mass killings in detail.

First, Eaton traces the roots of the...