A Transnational Approach to Resistance in Europe, 1936-48
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum has introduced a new digital teaching tool for the college classroom: Experiencing History offers students and teachers an innovative platform for exploring original materials on a wide variety of themes of topics. As part of a broader effort to examine themes related to Americans and the Holocaust, we’ve created a…
A special issue of the Journal of Modern European History has just been published: ‘Resistance and Collaboration in the Second World War as Transnational Phenomena‘. ISSN print: 1611-8944, ISSN online: 1611-8944, DOI: 10.17104/1611-8944-2018-2-175 Contents: Robert Gerwarth / Robert Gildea Introduction Seite 175–182 Samuël Kruizinga Struggling to Fit in. The Dutch in a Transnational Army, 1936–1939…
The Escape Line: How the Ordinary Heroes of Dutch-Paris Resisted the Nazi Occupation of Western Europe Megan Koreman Oxford University Press Published: 07 May 2018 (Hardcover) 424 Pages | 75 b/w images; 9 maps ISBN: 9780190662271 The only full-length accounts of the Dutch-Paris Escape Line. Koreman is the only historian who has been granted access…
Sunday-Thursday, June 3-7, 2018, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem The Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum are pleased to invite applications for…
Dear colleagues, I’m happy to announce that my research on the Soviet Guerrilla’s Intelligence was published by the Hebrew University Publishing House (Magnes Press) and Yad Vashem. The book is based on my extensive archival research (13 archives) in the Former Soviet Union and Germany and contains a completely unique information about the Soviet Partisans…
Zdenko Maršálek In Prague, the exhibition of posters from the Spanish Civil War opened on 6th April 2017. The exhibition was prepared in cooperation with the National Archives in Prague and the Institute for Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The opening ceremony included a brief lecture by Dr. Zdenko Maršálek from the…
Fonds français de l’Internationale Communiste 1917-1947 Importance matérielle: Cet instrument de recherche est composé de 28 fonds d’archives, 83 sous-fonds et 3282 dossiers. Particularité physique: Les documents numérisés contiennent plus de 456 000 pages en noir et blanc. La qualité des images est variable. Les documents sont principalement en langue française, russe, allemande et anglaise,…
Yaacov Falkov In the third week of August 1944, at about the time the insurrection in Paris was beginning, an unexpected dispatch in Morse code reached the London headquarters of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the British organization that conducted espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in Nazi-occupied Europe. Having been sent in English through previously unknown…
Hugo Garcia, Mercedes Yusta, Xavier Tabet, Cristina Climaco (eds.), Rethinking Antifascism. History, Memory and Politics, 1922 to the Present, Berghahn Books, New York, 2016. Bringing together leading scholars from a range of nations, Rethinking Antifascism provides a fascinating exploration of one of the most vibrant sub-disciplines within recent historiography. Through case studies that exemplify the…
Franziska Zaugg “The Designated Successor was found dead in his bedroom at dawn on December 14 [1981]. Albanian television made a brief announcement of the facts at noon: ‘During the night of December 13, the Successor succumbed to a nervous depression and took his own life with a firearm’.” The well-known Albanian writer Ismail Kadare…