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From:Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues (Issue 27) Peer-ReviewedThis gender-oriented historical study analyzes the image of Hansi Brand (Budapest, 1912--Tel Aviv, 2000), a member of the Jewish Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest during World War II. After the Nazi occupation of...
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From:Nursing Older People (Vol. 17, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedRetired Polish army colonel Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski, who was believed to have been Britain's oldest man, died in a nursing home in Cumbria at the age of 111. The Guardian said he fought the Nazis before escaping to...
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From:Borneo Research BulletinThis brief communication was prompted by the notes of Beatrice Clayre and William Batty-Smith in the Borneo Research Bulletin (Volume 30, 1999, respectively pp. 140-142 and 142-146), both referring to Bob Reece's recent...
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From:Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought (Vol. 49, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIN THE THIRTIES THERE WAS AN INFLUX OF GERMAN Jewish immigrants into the Netherlands and this stream intensified after Kristallnacht on November 9, 1938. Among these immigrants were many young people and even children...
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From:Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAurelio Alvero (1913-58) was a brilliant and complex Filipino intellectual who was found guilty of collaboration with Japan by the postwar Philippine People's Court and spent 1945-47 and 1950-52 in prison. An examination...
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From:Black Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 14, Issue 13)The GI Bill, formally known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was signed by Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt on Jun 22 of that year. No policy since then even came close to expanding economic opportunity and...
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From:National Forum (Vol. 75, Issue 4)One of the biggest changes brought about by World War II to US society was the shift in gender roles. With most of the men overseas, American women took over jobs previously regarded as the exclusive domain of men. New...
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From:The Journal of Transport History (Vol. 35, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis essay explores the social, political, and economic impact of road building in Mexico during the Second World War and early Cold War years. It examines the evolution of federal road-building policy alongside...
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From:Manitoba History (Issue 82) Peer-ReviewedMuch has been written about women and the home front during the two world wars--from their entry into the workforce to their volunteer efforts. What is sometimes overlooked, however, is the perspective of women with...
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From:Canadian Journal of Public Health (Vol. 105, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: The aftermath of World War II brought rapid change to the ways in which Canadian communities were designed and how their populations experienced their lives. The purpose of this study is to explore how...
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From:Poetry (Vol. 191, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed1 Four poilus in a wood austerely shitting. Death watches them, laughing, its sides splitting. Life is a cry followed by laughter. The body before, the waste after. 2 Could one hear in that wood the gentle click of the...
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From:Labour/Le Travail (Issue 83) Peer-ReviewedIN NOVEMBER 1942, CANADA'S NUTRITION Division chief Dr. Lionel B. Pett stood before the annual meeting of the Association of Canadian Advertisers and made a startling observation. Poor nutritional health among workers...
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From:Information Today (Vol. 36, Issue 6)* Adam Matthew unveiled a new primary source collection, America in World War Two: Oral Histories and Personal Accounts. It features photos, notebooks, video recordings, and other artifacts that explore how World War II...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5850)Three tired men, three matching ties, three very different tasks for the day when Britons marked the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe. The British election produced no memorable image...
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From:Contributions to the History of Concepts (Vol. 13, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe carnage of World War I gave rise to liberal visions for a new world order with democratized foreign policy and informed international public opinion. Conservatives emphasized continuity in national sovereignty, while...
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From:Town Planning Review (Vol. 84, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe IFHTP congresses held between the wars were one of the most important arenas of debate on the construction of the modern city. It was perhaps the first time in history that such a large number of representatives of...
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From:Michigan Historical Review (Vol. 32, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn 1949 New York Times food writer Jane Nickerson devoted most of her regular column, "News of Food," to discussing the new Gerber recipe booklet, Special Diet Recipes, featuring Gerber-based recipes for adult invalids....
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From:The American Enterprise (Vol. 10, Issue 3)IN FEBRUARY, President Clinton told the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. that "Adolf Hitler preached a perverted form of Christianity." That is patently untrue. Hitler was in fact an enemy of Christianity,...
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From:Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal (Vol. 14, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFalbel describes the process by which she and her brother and parents were saved from Austria on the eve of WWII through the determined efforts of an aunt and uncle in America, and subsequent failed attempts to obtain...
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From:The American Enterprise (Vol. 14, Issue 1)Polling was in its infancy during World War II, and Gallup and Roper asked Americans many interesting questions about the war and the homefront. In commentary on its 1941 Roper poll, Fortune magazine said that although...