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"Pflichterfuellung (Fulfilling One's Obligation)": Pamphlet published by Neues Osterreich (New Austria) with a forward by Peter Handka regarding Kurt Waldheim, the Bundespraesident (President of Austria), 1986 The pamphlet was published after the presidential elections in Austria, 04 May 1986. The goal of the pamphlet was, as written in the forward, to present Kurt Waldheim's activities and behavior during his military service as an officer in the German Army on the Balkan front during World War II; Waldheim excused his army service by calling it "fulfilling one's obligation as a soldier"; the pamphlet...

File Number : 175

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Moshe Mione, born in Jannina, 1923, regarding his experiences as a partisan

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Mione, born in Jannina, 1923, regarding his experiences as a partisan Family life before the war; Italian occupation, 1941; German occupation, 1943; looting the belongings of Jannina's Jews; concentration of the city’s Jews in a camp near Larisa; Nazi abuse of his brother; escape and joining the Greek partisans; partisan activity in Jannina. Return to Jannina after the war; aliya to Israel, 1949; absorption.

File Number : 10632

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Bachar, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia, regarding his experiences in Mitrovica, Pristina, as a forced laborer and in Albania

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Bachar, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia, regarding his experiences in Mitrovica, Pristina, as a forced laborer and in Albania Life before the war; her father owns a shop; drafted into the Slovenian Army; release from the army, 1937; move to Mitrovica. Outbreak of the war; escape to Pristina, 1940; activities of Moslem collaborators; deportation to forced labor; help to refugees from Belgrade; knowledge concerning the deportation of Jews to camps, May 1941; escape to Albania; partisan attacks on the Italians; murder of Italian soldiers by the Germans; liberation by the partisans,...

File Number : 4546

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Research article on Kurt Waldheim's actions during WW II

Anonymous research article (first two pages missing) on Kurt Waldheim, the president of Austria, and his actions as Nazi officer in the Balkans during WW II.

File Number : 1287

Type of Material : Research Article

Language : German