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Willy Cohn
Dr. Willy Cohn (12 December 1888 in Wrocław, Breslau – 29 November 1941 in Kaunas, Kaunas, Lithuania) was a German historian and teacher. During the Nazi era, he documented the Jewish life in Breslau in his diaries, until he and his family were deported to German-occupied Lithuania and killed. Cohn's diaries, translated into English and condensed, were published in 2012 as ''No Justice in Germany: The Breslau Diaries, 1933-1941'' by Stanford University Press. Along with Victor Klemperer, Cohn was one of the most important chroniclers of the crimes of the Nazi regime against the Jewish people. Biography Willy Cohn came from a wealthy Jewish merchant family in Breslau. Starting in 1906, he studied history in Breslau and Heidelberg. He completed his degree in 1909 with a dissertation about the Norman-Sicilian fleet, which was published in Breslau in 1910. Cohn took the examination to qualify as a gymnasium teacher, although he aspired to pursue an academic career at the University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrocław
Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, roughly from the Baltic Sea to the north and from the Sudeten Mountains to the south. , the official population of Wrocław is 672,929, with a total of 1.25 million residing in the metropolitan area, making it the third largest city in Poland. Wrocław is the historical capital of Silesia and Lower Silesia. Today, it is the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. The history of the city dates back over a thousand years; at various times, it has been part of the Kingdom of Poland, the Kingdom of Bohemia, the Kingdom of Hungary, the Habsburg monarchy of Austria, the Kingdom of Prussia and Germany. Wrocław became part of Poland again in 1945 as part of the Recovered Territories, the result of extensive border changes and expulsions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vienna
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Staatsbibliothek Zu Berlin
This is a list of the state libraries (german: Landesbibliothek) for each of the Länder of the Federal Republic of Germany. These libraries hold the right for legal deposit for the publications in their respective state. Landesbibliothek Staatsbibliothek The historic National Libraries of the former Kingdoms, now States of Germany (Länder), are called Staatsbibliothek (state libraries). Among the libraries named Staatsbibliothek are:''Bibliotheken mit Pflichtexemplar in Deutschland''. DBI, Berlin 1995 (Aufstellung über alle Pflichtexemplarbibliotheken und die historische Aufteilung der Pflichtexemplare in Deutschland) * the Bavarian State Library (''Bayerische Staatsbibliothek'' or BSB) in Munich, one of the world's largest libraries and the former library of the Kingdom of Bavaria * the Bamberg State Library (''Staatsbibliothek Bamberg''), a library in Bamberg, Bavaria * the Berlin State Library (''Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin''), the largest academic library in the German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Posthumous Publications Of Holocaust Victims
This is a list of Holocaust victims whose writings were published posthumously. Published in English or translated into English *Hinde Bergner (1870–1942): ''On Long Winter Nights: Memoirs of a Jewish Family in a Galician Township, 1870–1900'' *Hélène Berr (1921–1945): ''The Journal of Hélène Berr'' *Miriam Chaszczewacki (1924–1942): ''Diary'' *Abraham Cytryn (1927–1944): ''Youth Writing Behind the Walls: Notebooks From the Lodz Ghetto'' *Adam Czerniaków (1880–1942): ''The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom'' * Julius Feldman (1923–1943): ''The Krakow Diary of Julius Feldman'' * Sarah Fishkin (1924–1942?): ''Heaven and Earth: the Diary of Sarah Fishkin'' *Moshe Flinker (1926–1944): ''Young Moshe’s Diary: The Spiritual Torment of a Jewish Boy in Nazi Europe'' *Anne Frank (1929–1945): ''The Diary of a Young Girl'' *Petr Ginz (1928–1944): ''The Diary of Petr Ginz'' * Éva Heyman (1931–1944): ''The Diary of Éva Heyman'' *Etty Hillesum (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Diarists
This is an international list of diarists who have Wikipedia pages and whose journals have been published. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z Diaries of disputed authenticity *The Black Diaries purportedly written by Roger Casement and detailing his alleged homosexual activities, are believed by some to be a forgery perpetrated by the British government. See also *List of Australian diarists of World War I *List of dream diaries *List of fictional diaries This is a list of fictional diaries categorized by type, including fictional works in diary form, diaries appearing in fictional works, and hoax diaries. The first category, fictional works in diary form, lists fictional works where the story, ... * References {{DEFAULTSORT:Diarists * Lists of writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Holocaust Diarists
Diarists who wrote diaries concerning the Holocaust (1941-1945). * Mary Berg * Hélène Berr - a French diarist * Willy Cohn * Adam Czerniaków * Arnold Daghani * Petr Ginz * Zalman Gradowski * Etty Hillesum - Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim; kept a diary in Amsterdam and in the Westerbork transit camp **('' Etty Hillesum and the Flow of Presence: A Voegelinian Analysis'') * David Kahane * Zelig Kalmanovich * Victor Klemperer * Janusz Korczak * Herman Kruk * Leib Langfus * Rywka Lipszyc * Calel Perechodnik * Sam Pivnik - Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, author and memoirist * Yitskhok Rudashevski * Tanya Savicheva * Leokadia Schmidt * Mihail Sebastian * Shalom Yoran Teenaged Holocaust diarists * Janina Altman (aka Janina Hescheles, who wrote My Lvov) * Hana Brady (aka Hana "Hanička" Bradyová) – subject of the children's book ''Hana's Suitcase'' * Miriam Chaszczewacki – a Polish diarist killed in the Radomsko ghetto * Helga Deen – wrote a diary in He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compact Memory
Compact as used in politics may refer broadly to a pact or treaty; in more specific cases it may refer to: * Interstate compact * Blood compact, an ancient ritual of the Philippines * Compact government, a type of colonial rule utilized in British North America * Compact of Free Association whereby the sovereign states of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau have entered into as associated states with the United States. * Mayflower Compact, the first governing document of Plymouth Colony * United Nations Global Compact * Global Compact for Migration, a UN non-binding intergovernmental agreement Mathematics * Compact element, those elements of a partially ordered set that cannot be subsumed by a supremum of any directed set that does not already contain them * Compact operator, a linear operator that takes bounded subsets to relatively compact subsets, in functional analysis * Compact space, a topological space such that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Walk
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese and Spanish, the name is "José". In Arabic, including in the Quran, the name is spelled ''Yūsuf''. In Persian, the name is "Yousef". The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and ''Joseph'' was one of the two names, along with ''Robert'', to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century. In the first century CE, Joseph was the second most popular male name for Palestine Jews. In the Book of Genesis Joseph is Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first son, and kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norbert Conrads
Norbert is a Germanic given name, from ''nord'' "north" and ''berht'' "bright". Norbert is also occasionally found as a surname. People with the given name Academia * Norbert Angermann (born 1936), German historian * Norbert A’Campo (born 1941), Swiss mathematician * Norbert Berkowitz (1924–2001), Canadian scientist * Norbert Bischofberger (born 1954), Austrian scientist * Norbert Bolz (born 1953), German philosopher * Norbert Elias (1897–1990), German Jewish sociologist * Norbert Fuhr (born 1956), German computer scientist * Norbert Geng (born 1965), German legal scholar * Norbert Guterman (1900–1984), American translator * Norbert von Hellingrath (1888-1916), German literary scholar * Norbert Hirschhorn (born 1938), American physician * Norbert Hornstein, American linguist * Norbert Jokl (1877–1942?), Austrian Jewish linguist * Norbert Klatt (born 1949), German religious scholar * Norbert Leser (1933–2014), Austrian political scientist * Norbert Lynton (1927–2007) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
H-Net
__NOTOC__ H-Net ("Humanities & Social Sciences Online") is an interdisciplinary forum for scholars in the humanities and social sciences. It is best known for hosting electronic mailing lists organized by academic disciplines; according to the organization's website, H-Net lists reach over 200,000 subscribers in more than 90 countries. The H-Net Network has grown until it is now endorsed by many academic professional organizations. Its over 180 topic- or discipline-specific lists are often the primary internet forum for scholars. Individual lists are edited by a team of scholars and each has a board of editors. H-Net is hosted by the Department of History at Michigan State University. Online services In addition to its email lists, H-Net provides three related online services: *H-Net Reviews: 46,000+ reviews of books and other publications, commissioned and published on its website and through its listservs *H-Net Job Guide: academic position announcements, available on its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
