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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source

“I swear to fight for a free and mighty Poland, carry out the orders of my superiors, so help me God.”Jews in the Home Army. An Episode from Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski

open access: yesZagłada Żydów, 2008
The article presents a selection of documents from a 1949 trial, which concluded with the sentence of three ZWZ-AK members, Opatów district, by the Court of Appeals in Kielce – Józef Mularski, Leon Nowak and Edward Perzyński – for complicity in the ...
Dariusz Libionka, Alina Skibińska
doaj   +1 more source

Keynote Address [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Keynote address given by the Clinton Administration\u27s leader on Holocaust-era issues as Special Representative of the President and Secretary of State. The address covered the details of major agreements with the Swiss, Germans, Austrians, and French
Eizenstat, Stuart
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“It Is Vital That We Should Not Keep It to Ourselves”: The Rats of Tobruk Association and the Siege of Tobruk in Australian National Memory

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
The siege of Tobruk is one of the most well‐known Australian actions of the Second World War, enjoying special attention on Anzac Day. Its elevation within Australian national memory is by no means accidental. Rather, it is the result of decades of lobbying by the Rats of Tobruk Association (ROTA), which positioned veterans of the siege as the ...
Nicole Townsend
wiley   +1 more source

Official Order and Ritual Disobedience in Transnistria’s Ghettos

open access: yesSfera Politicii, 2014
The study I propose approaches the world of Transnistria’s ghettos from a social perspective, my focus being on the reconstruction of the survival networks developed under the virtually exterminatory conditions of the ghettos as well as the parallel ...
Ana Bărbulescu
doaj  

Remembering the Holocaust with Rosalie Franks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
From her work on Steven Spielberg’s Holocaust survivors project to her RWU classroom, adjunct professor instills the importance of human rights and social ...
Rodrigues, Jill
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Metaphorizing the Holocaust: The Ethics of Comparison [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Metaphorizing the Holocaust: The Ethics of Comparison  This paper focuses on the ethics of metaphor and other forms of comparison that invoke National Socialism and the Holocaust.
Webber, Mark
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When First Nations Don't Count: H.V. Evatt and the Erasure of Palestinian Rights

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
As Minister for External Affairs in the Chifley Government, Herbert Vere Evatt played a pivotal role at the United Nations in securing the partition of Palestine and recognition of the State of Israel. These endeavours were represented by Evatt and in subsequent commentary as exemplifying Evatt's commitment to justice.
Jeff Rickertt
wiley   +1 more source

From Unremembered to Overremembered. Gender in the Holocaust Museums of Hungary and Slovakia

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In museums, the history of the Holocaust is told through various means of exhibition construction, including architecture/space, texts, artifacts, photographs, and digital technologies. The article focuses on the gendered history of the Holocaust in museums as institutions in Central Europe after the illiberal turn and evaluates how (and if ...
Andrea Petö, Borbála Klacsmann
wiley   +1 more source

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