Geschichte

Die Revolutionen in Europa beginnen immer auf Straßen und Plätzen. Träger sind die unteren Schichten der Gesellschaft von den Tagelöhnern bis zu den Handwerksmeistern, öfters unterstützt von Journalisten, Studenten und meist freiberuflichen Akademikern. Diese liefern in der Regel das ...

Bringing together leading scholars, Babyn Yar presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the most traumatic sites in the Ukrainian experience of the war.

Following the 2004-5 Orange Revolution, President Viktor Yushchenko embarked on an ambitious project to rehabilitate the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and its armed wing, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). Following the Euromaidan Revolution and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in ...

On Bonifratrow Street is the story of how Michael Katz survived the Holocaust as a Jewish boy hiding ‘in plain sight’ on the streets of Warsaw after escaping from Janowska concentration camp in Lviv (Lwow). He moved to Warsaw under an assumed name and joined the Polish resistance. Michael ...

“The publication of the 2nd edition of Chris Webb´s book on Sobibor is an important addition to the literature on the Aktion Reinhardt camps, which are still under-researched in relation to their significance in terms of the 'Final Solution'. The published literature on the Aktion Reinhardt ...

This book examines the process of re-establishment of Jewish communities in two post-war European cities – in Wrocław which passed after 1945 from Germany to Poland, and in L’viv which passed from Poland to the Soviet Union. These processes were thus overseen by two different Communist ...

The 2013–2014 Euromaidan Revolution’s call for justice, dignity, and liberty brought Ukraine, which had ’disappeared ’ behind the Iron Curtain for decades after the horrors of World War II, into the world’s public consciousness. Yet, the country was soon almost forgotten again. In ...

This book comprises a collection of essays that shed light on some of the key humanitarian issues that have emerged in independent Ukraine since the fall of the Soviet Union. With a strong empirical focus, the chapters explore pivotal events such as the 1990 Student Revolution on Granite ...

Eta kniga — rezul'tat mnogoletnego issledovaniia o seksualizirovannom nasilii nad zhenshchinami v Vengrii vo Vtoroi mirovoi voine. S pomoshch'iu arkhivnykh istochnikov, interv'iu i lichnykh dnevnikov Andrea Peto vosstanavlivaet dramatichnyi opyt vengerskikh zhenshchin, udeliaia osoboe vnimanie ...

Die Existenz von Sklavenliedern, insbesondere von Spirituals, ist zwar bekannt, aber ihr Charakter wird oft missverstanden. Sklavenlieder waren nicht nur Klagen über Leiden oder Ablenkungen von einem Leben im Elend. In Songs of Slavery and Emancipation (Lieder über Sklaverei und Emanzipation) ...