Explores examples of armed and unarmed resistance by Jews and other Holocaust victims. Includes bibliographical references (pages 50-52). 52 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm

The "Anti-Nazi Resistance and Opposition" collection consists of pamphlets, flyers, and booklets published across Europe during World War II. These publications document the atrocities committed by the Nazis and by their collaborators, and were originally aimed to unite the oppressed populations in spiritual and armed resistance. The opposition to the Nazis was led by people from different social backgrounds: ...

Animated map from Brest to Antwerp. Members of the Milice leave a prison building and stand at attention. CU on a patch on the uniform of one man. The Milice leads a column of resistance fighters out of the prison under armed guard. CU of the shattered windshield of a car that has been attacked by "terrorists." German field police check papers of vehicles and pedestrians, including an elderly man with ...

"The Nazi occupation of the Netherlands was a complex, varied and bloody affair. Well- documented is the initial capture by the Gestapo of a secret Dutch Special Operations Executive radio-operator who thereafter lured several parachuted agents to their deaths, but, the actual scope and complexity of the occupation was much greater than this. Large-scale civil resistance against the occupation began ...

Resistance in German-occupied Europe is generally understood as insurrectional violence. However, as soon as the war broke out, thousands of people engaged in civil disobedience -- manifested through strikes, demonstrations, and the activities of medical organizations, courts of law, and churches. Jacques Sémelin gathers evidence for the story of a movement that took place in France, Belgium, the ...

Book about the lives of three teenage Dutch girls, Hannie Schaft (19) and sisters Truus (16) and Freddie (14) Oversteegen, who joined the armed resistance during the Second World War. They seduced high-ranking Nazi officers, luring them into the woods and killing them, they provided Jewish children with safe houses and gathered vital intelligence for the resistance. They did what they did ''because ...

"Exploring the concepts of collaboration, resistance, and post-war retribution and focusing on the Chetnik movement, this book analyses the politics of memory"-- Includes bibliographical references and index. xiii, 174 pages ; 24 cm.

"This study examines the military, political, and personal life of Abdul Harus Nasution, a seminal figure in modern Indonesian history. The author analyzes Nasution's participation in the country's struggle for independence, his role as leader of the armed forces, and his strategies on guerrilla warfare and civilian mobilization"-- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and index. x, 281 ...

14 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 19 cm

"Le Journal de la Resistance" Title: "Realise clandestinement et sans aucun moyen materiel entre le 16 et le 26 aout 1944 par une equipe de cineastes de la Resistance, ce film apporte a la France et au Monde un temoignange authentique sur la Liberation de Paris" View of Paris just prior to liberation. Empty street, trucks, Germany rebuilds, tank. Men running in street, hanging posters. CUs, various ...

Discusses the role of Jewish women in resistance activities in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Hungary, and Poland during World War II, based on archival material, private documents, letters, and diaries, as well as interviews with 43 former resistance fighters. Most of the interviewees had an academic or professional education; 90% were immigrants or children of immigrants. Their activities focused ...

This collection contains : a declaration signed by Emile Dernivoy regarding the resistance activities of Hubert Henrotte and Emma Balay ; certificates of civil resistance awarded to Hubert Henrotte and Emma Balay by the Kingdom of Belgium ; a class picture of the fourth grade at the Bressoux communal school in 1936-1937, with among the pupils Louise Henrotte and five identified Jewish girls, including ...

The collection consists of three books relating to the Warsaw ghetto and Jewish armed resistance in Poland.

"Captured by German forces shortly after Dunkirk, and not relinquished until May of 1945, nearly a year after the Normandy invasion, the British Channel Islands (Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, and Herm) were characterized during their occupation by severe deprivation and powerlessness. The Islanders, with few resources to stage an armed resistance, constructed a rhetorical resistance based upon ...

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