A hétköznapi erényekről. Kísérlet a holokauszt idején tanúsított egyedülálló bolgár magatartás magyarázatára

Author(s): Toso Doncsev / Language(s): English,Bulgarian,Hungarian

“Rescuing Jews” in Bulgaria refers to the fact that during World War II in a Bulgaria allied with Nazi Germany there were two occasions when the nearly 50,000 Bulgarian-citizen Jews averted deportation at the last minute ina near-miraculous way. Th e outcome was that Bulgaria became the only European country whose Jewish population was larger at the end of the war than at the beginning. But I need to underscore that the story is limited exclusively to Jews who were Bulgarian citizens, because the other part of this history is of Macedonia, and Trakya (Thrace), in the Aegean Sea. These regions were turned over to Bulgaria administratively but not annexed,and with the aid of the Bulgarian authorities the nearly 12,000 Jews who lacked Bulgarian citizenship were deported in 1943. Since this occurred in an early stage of the Holocaust,hardly anyone survived. Th e Bulgarian historians and the country’s official policy deserve kudos in accepting responsibility for the events in the territories they were occupying militarily, and today, in 2015 they are increasingly sincere in facing up to their actions. Indirectly, this makes the actions of the heroes in “Old Bulgaria,” in other words, present-day Bulgaria, which rescued the Jews, even more praiseworthy.

Сећање на зло

Author(s): Danilo Trbojević / Language(s): Serbian

Crimes of the Communist Regimes - Proceedings of an international Conference held in Prague, 24–26 February 2010

Author(s): / Language(s): English

The conference was hosted by Jiří Liška, Vice-chairman of the Senate, Parliament of the Czech Republic and the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic and organized by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes together with partner institutions from the working group on the Platform of European Memory and Conscience

Of Red Dragons and Evil Spirits. Post-Communist Historiography Between Democratization and New Politics of History

Author(s): / Language(s): English

The collection of well researched chapters assesses the uses and misuses of history 25 years after the collapse of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe. As opposed to the emphasis on the recovery of memory or revival of national histories that seemed to be the prevelant historiographical approaches of the 1990s, the last decade has seen a particular set of narratives equating Nazism and communism and so providing opportunities to exonerate wartime collaboration, cast the nation as victim even when its government was allied with Germany, and acknowledge the Jewish Holocaust while obfuscating its meaning and significance.In their comparative analysis the authors are also interested in new practices of performing ‘Europeanness.’ Therefore their presentations of Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian and Slovenian post-communist memory politics move beyond the common national myths in order to provide a new insight into transnational interactions and exchanges in Europe in general. The juxtaposition of these politics, the processes in other parts of Europe, the modes of remembering shaped by displacement and the transnational memory practices enable a close encounter with the divergences and assess the potential of the formation of common, European memory practices.

Cena víťazstva. Odvlečenie obyvateľov z územia Československa, Maďarska a Poľska do Sovietskeho zväzu v rokoch 1944-1945

Author(s): / Language(s): Slovak

This publication, the subject of which is the Gulag phenomenon and the mass abduction of citizens from Central Europe to Soviet labour camps, mostly consists of written versions of conference papers. The conference entitled „The Price of Victory“. Abduction of Citizens from Slovakia and Neighbouring Countries to the USSR in 1944–1945 was held in Košice on 24 November 2016, and its organizers—the Forum Minority Research Institute and the History Department of the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice—invited experts on the theme from four countries (Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and Ukraine).

SIBÉRIE. Terre de l'Exil et de l'Industrialisation

Author(s): Ante Ciliga / Language(s): French

La Macédoine et la Renaissance Bulgare au XIXe siècle

Author(s): Simeon Traychev Radev / Language(s): French

Editor 1918: La Société des Savants, Gens de Lettres er Artistes Bulgares. Author: Siméon Radeff has been former Minister of the Bulgarian Government.

Spór o średniowiecze. Z rozważań nad tożsamością kulturową Europy. Jacques Le Goff, Jerzy Kłoczowski, Aron Guriewicz

Author(s): Anna M. Brzezińska / Language(s): Polish

The book is a proposal of reading the works of the leading European medievalists of the twentieth century in the cultural context of medievalism, understood here as a belief in the fundamental role of the Middle Ages for the development of a specifically European system of values. An innovative idea was to use a comparative perspective for three historiographic traditions: Polish, French and Russian. Inscribing into the “bright legend” of the Middle Ages through perceiving such values as respecting differences with respect for local tradition, subsidiarity and solidarity towards the community, the three historians indicate the basic features of European unity, actively shaping the debate on the identity of contemporary Europe. // Książka jest propozycją odczytania dorobku czołowych europejskich mediewistów XX wieku w kulturowym kontekście mediewalizmu, rozumianego tu jako przekonanie o fundamentalnej roli średniowiecza dla wykształcenia swoiście europejskiego systemu wartości. Nowatorskim pomysłem było zastosowanie perspektywy porównawczej dla trzech tradycji historiograficznych: polskiej, francuskiej i rosyjskiej. Wpisując się w „jasną legendę” średniowiecza, poprzez dostrzeżenie w nim takich wartości, jak poszanowanie różnic przy jednoczesnym szacunku dla tradycji lokalnej, pomocniczość czy solidarność wobec społeczności, trzej historycy wskazują podstawowe cechy jedności europejskiej, aktywnie kształtując debatę nad tożsamością współczesnej Europy.

L'EUROPE AU JOUR LE JOUR. VOL 04, La Première Guerre Balkanique

Author(s): Auguste Gauvain / Language(s): French

The 14 volumes of Auguste Gauvain represent an <strong>11 Years Political Diary</strong> of the very origins of Modern Europe as it evolved in early 20th century from a multitude of disintegrations (OTTOMAN EMPIRE…), competitions between colonialist powers (BERLIN-BAGDAD….), diplomatic pinpricks (AFFAIRE AGADIR….), side-theatres of war (BALKAN WARS 1912/13…) and, finally, the unique and global catastrophe of WorldWar I.<br>The idea of Modern Europe originated simultaneously from the efforts of thousands of individual politicians, diplomats, intellectuals to find applicable ways to prevent those European « Bloodlands » (<i>Timothy D. Snyder</i> ) during their own age as well as and for the future of Europe.<br>In 1908, when Austria-Hungary implemented the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the French journalist and Foreign-Policy expert Auguste Gauvain considered this decision of the Habsburg Empire as the beginning of a process which, more or less unavoidably, would result in a European War. Hence, he began writing a daily column on the “Event of the Day” in European politics for the French journal « Les Debats ». With few and short interruptions during WW I he did so on each day until the end of the Versailles Peace negotiations in 1919. In early 1920s he published the full collection of all these columns in 14 volumes with the title <strong>« L’Europe au Jour le Jour ».</strong><br>CEEOL has decided to re-publish all these 14 volumes and nearly 10.000 pages as a contemporary key document for understanding the very origins of Modern Europe, the historical progress it represents and the historical necessities and forces which triggered its development. Even its supra-national institution-building after WW II cannot be really understood without this historical background of a few decades before. <br><br><strong>FOR DETAILS REGARDING THIS VOLUME PLEASE DOWNLOAD PDFs FROM THE «Contents»-TAB HERE ↓↓ BELOW</strong>

Уџбеник за Тита - Коминтерна и припреме партизанског рата у Европи

Author(s): / Language(s): Serbian

СРБИЈА ПРЕ СТО ГОДИНА

Author(s): Tihomir Đorđević / Language(s): Serbian

published by PROSVETA (Belgrade 1946). // This book is a selection from those articles by Tihomir Đorđević which present mostly cultural opportunities in Serbia a hundred years ago. The articles are taken from the books "Our People's Life", "The Serbia of King Milos" and from a literary supplement "Politika". All articles were published as published by Tihomir Djordjevic; only a few shorter places have been left out, which have a very close character. As the book is intended for a wider circle of readers, references and sources are reduced to a minimum.

THE STRUGGLE of the SERBS. With a Foreword by Field-Marshal Lord Milne

Author(s): K. St. Pavlowitch / Language(s): English

This book has no pretence of being merely a dry historical record of events. It is rather in the nature of a series of historical pictures, sketching in broad outline the times of stress and danger through which Serbia has passed, and the stand she has invariably made for her own rights and those of others. A plentiful suppy of ‘Notes’ helps to fix in the mind the historical background. // This is not a book to skim and then to discard. It is rather a book to browse on at leisure, to help us probe into the history and ideals of a small nation, ignorant for the most part of our nation, but which places an almost childlike faith on our sense of honesty and fair-dealing: a country which has won the right of being judged by the actions, past and present, of her heroic inhabitants, today risking their all for freedom to five. The author of this book, who is a Serb and knows his people well, in quoting Mr. Churchill’s words „Yugoslavia found her soul,“ added that the Serbs had never lost it. May I express the wish that it is for us to help them guard it. (from Lord Milne's foreword)

LES SERBES CROATES ET SLOVÈNES

Author(s): Pierre-Augustin Chaboseau / Language(s): French

As for the historical claims, we will certainly be happy when chance establishes an absolute or relative agreement between them and the new route, but there will be, in short, only aesthetic satisfaction. Today's world has neither the time nor the inclination to perpetuate the memory of more or less ancient spoliations, of more or less long usurpations. One of the essential conceptions which inspire the increasing efforts at the present time to organize an unprecedented international regime, is precisely that by virtue of which the so-called rights acquired by arms are held to be null. Finally and above all, whenever the reconciliation of systems based on geographical unity, the homogeneity of race, language, religion, the needs of military or naval defense, agricultural, industrial, commercial resources, has failed in the face of impossibilities or an excess of difficulties, the solution of the problem will be required from the popular will. There is one principle that dominates all others in our time. It is this, for example, much more than the principle of nationalities, which makes legitimate, sacred, in the eyes of all people of good sense and good faith, of all honest people, the aspirations of Alsace and from Lorraine, Slesvig, Transilvanie, Trentino. We propose to study, in the following chapters, what Yugoslavia can and should be for anyone who refers to the above ideas and feelings. (from author's introduction)

YUGOSLAVIA

Author(s): / Language(s): English

FIFTEEN historians, political scientists, and other scholars have contributed chapters to this book, designed to introduce contemporary Yugoslavia to the general reader. The result is uneven. This reviewer feels that bad judgment has occasionally been displayed in the choice of materials. Many of the individual chapters, on the other hand, are highly rewarding. // The historical chapters, by R. J. Kerner, B. E. Schmitt, and J. C. Adams, resemble tightly packed summaries of these authors’ previous books and articles. These were important contributions but were intended for specialists. The impropriety of including them here in this form is glaring, since their inclusion has apparently necessitated the exclusion of material more important for the beginning student of Yugoslavia. Of the seventy pages on “historical background” more than fifty deal with the origins, course, and aftermath of the First World War. Almost no space is devoted to the medieval period or to the period of Turkish domination: nowhere in the book, for example, can one find a clear statement of what happened at the battle of Kosovo, June 28, 1389, or of the implications of the Serbian defeat, though scholars generally agree that this is the critical moment of Serbian history from the psychological as well as from the military point of view. Nowhere is there an analysis by a historian of the Byzantine influence on the Serbs (although we are repeatedly told that it existed), nowhere a full discussion of the role played by the Orthodox Church in the development of nationalism. Yet we have a full statement of the types and quantities of ammunition available to the Serbian army in July, 1914, and a rehearsal of differences of opinion between the “academic” and “nonacademic” members of the American delegation at the peace conference. Some of this distortion is removed by the excellent brief chapter of Alex Dragnich, on “Social Structure”, which, alone in the book, gives due weight to the earlier period. (REVIEW by ROBERT LEE WOLFF in The American Historical Review, Vol 55, 1 [1949])

THE CRIMES OF THE FASCIST OCCUPANTS AND THEIR COLLABORATORS AGAINST JEWS IN YUGOSLAVIA

Author(s): / Language(s): English

Published by Federation of Jewish Communities of the Federative People’s Republic of Yugoslavia, Belgrade 1957

Au Pays du Nep et de la Tchéka. Dans les Prisons de l’U.R.S.S.

Author(s): Boris Sederholm / Language(s): French

From 1924 to 1926, the Soviet government, or more precisely the Cheka, detained me, a foreigner, not guilty of any crime, in various places of detention, and finally deported me to the concentration camp. of Solovetzk for a period of three years, without prior judgment and in force by a simple decision of the Gué-Pé-Ou, in other words the Cheka. // My experiences in Soviet Russia are so implausible, because of the cruelty and cynicism shown towards me, that I have found it useful to add to this book the copy of certain documents extracted correspondence concerning my "case" and exchanged between the Consulate of Finland and the Public Commissariat of Foreign Affairs. Unfortunately, I am currently unable to publish in full the many documents relating to the talks between the Finnish government and the Soviet government regarding my arrest and release. But the few pieces that I have found opportune to publish amply confirm the veracity of my account. I would like to draw the reader's attention to the fact that in the course of the following account I have changed the surnames of the people I have mentioned, as well as certain circumstances, but only in cases where I do so. I deemed it necessary for the safety of these people, who are still alive and who are in a territory where they would risk being reached by the Gué-Pé-Ou, in other words the Tcheka. (from Author’s introduction) - DIGITIZED COPY OF THE 1928 EDITION OF «EDITIONS JULES TALLANDIER», Paris

La Russie et les problèmes de la Paix

Author(s): Léon Moïsevitch Nemanoff / Language(s): French

Napoleon said that a country’s foreign policy is determined by its geographical position and its permanent interests. German geopoliticians, led by Haushofer, did not contradict him. If, in our capacity as human geographer, we find the direct relation of the natural environment to politics too summary, by a method capable of sometimes misleading uncritical minds or even of justifying abominable acts, on the other hand, we are ready to follow Léon Némanoff in a similar demonstration, but which does not ignore the human factor and economic influences. // The author of “Russia and the Problems of Peace” is a specialist in Slavic issues, as we had noticed in the heyday of the S. d. N. His training meets scientific requirements. He even manages to remain objective, in dealing with his own country. This is not to say, however, that he will not let his patriotism pierce his words. And M. Némanoff will take us on an astonishing adventure, that of the Russian people. He will make us relive it as he feels it, intensely. Departing with him from the constants of Russian politics, we will watch a historical film which will now unfold logically, the characters of this poignant drama obeying in a way an irresistible imperative.

Jevrejski Almanah 1955-1956

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Croatian,Serbian

publishjed by »Savez Jevrejskih Opština Jugoslavije«, Belgrade 1956 // Dr Albert Vajs: Na kraju prve i na početku druge decenije / Dr Andrija Gams: Društvene borbe kod stvaranja stare jevrejske države Vuk Vinaver: Jevreji u Srbiji početkom XIX veka./ Dr Lavoslav Glesinger: Jevreji i Hrvati u Arapskoj Spaniji / Dr Zdenko Levntal: Jedan velikan duha: Maimonides / Dr Samuel Pinto: Prosvjetne prilike bosanskih Jevreja za turske vladavine / Prof. Miroslava Despot: Zagrebački knjižar Lavoslav Hartman / Ladislav Fišer: Jevrejstvo Bačke / Jakir Eventov: Omladina iz 1918 godine / Jakov Atijas: „Esperansa“ — Jevrejski sefardski studentski klub u Zagrebu ./ Aron Alkalaj: Dvanaest godina Jevrejske čitaonice u Beogradu 1929—1941 / Mirko Sekelj: Učešće subotičke. jevrejske omladine u borbi protiv okupatora ./ Avram R. Mevorah: O radu Saveza jevrejskih opština prvih dana po oslobođenju Beograda / Aleksandar Levi: Dva potresna muzeja / Vera Stein-Ehrlich: čudo regeneracije / Bata Gedalja: Dr Fridrih Pops / Aron Alkalaj: Sećanja na Isaka Mašijaha / Sofija Almuli: Jelena Demajo / Maja Bošković: Magda Bošković / Edita Vajs: O jevrejskim dečjim zabavištima / Aleksandar-Dov Stajner: Logorovanje naše omladine / Dr Arje Levavi: Izrael danas / Cvi Loker: Razni aspekti jugoslovensko-izraelskih odnosa / David A. Alkalaj: Jugoslovenska alija / Dr Jakov H. Kalderon: O izraelskoj štampi / Dr Pavle Neuberger: Jugoslovenski Jevreji u SAD / Dr Solomon Gaon: Svetska sefardska federacija i njen kongres u Jerusalimu 1954 / Marko Marković: Pripovjedački lik Isaka Samokovlije / Bogdan Ciplić: Sećanje na Nenada Mitrova / Isak Samokovlija: Sarajevska megila / Ivo Andrić: Na jevrejskom groblju u Sarajevu / Hinko Gottlieb: Legenda o zimskom kaputu / Pavao Wertheim: „Baharaški rabin44 H. Heinea / Heinrich Heine: Djevojčica momku bje mila. — Gdje? / Heinrich Heine: Sleski tkalci / Zaječi, naša tugo / Liza i Oto Bihalji-Merin: Ulica mrtvih Jevreja / Gustav Krklec: Jevrejka s Bjelava / Desanka Maksimović: Suma u Izraelu / Ervin Sinko: Nisam se rodio da budem ganef! (Odlomak iz knjige: „Roman jednog romana" / Zak Konfino: Tiju Menahem razmatra slučaj Kraljevića Marka / Božidar Kovačević: Dete / Jožef Debreceni: Neverovatno leto / Magda Bošković: Mi Građanska djeca / Ljubiša Jocić: U varšavskom getu / Andreja Deak: Jevrejska legenda / Istvan Braun-Kvazimodo: I uspomene imaju svoju sudbinu / Dr Zeljko Lador-Lederer: Priča o tome kako se pet knjiga našlo na okupu 339 Ivan Ivanji: Pitanje Josipa Flavija / Đula Lukač: „Polizeistunde" / Maja Zrnič: Hijene./ Julija Najman: Riki se vratila / Eva TiČak-Vajler: Susret na Jadranu / Sonja Nahman-Premeru: Starost / Josef Finci: Liječnik / Rikica Ovadija: Dobar dan, ja sam Bunks / Vlada Rotbart: Ponovno viđenje / Vesna Demajo: Prsten / Zoran Gavrilović: Džon Hersej: „Zid" / Dr Teodor Kovač: Testament (Stevan Kvazimodo: Testamentum, roman) / Hronologija važnijih događaja iz života jevrejske zajednice u Jugoslaviji (1954 i 1955) / Bibliographia judaica jugoslavica 1945—1955 / Beleške o saradnicima i radovima.

The Trial of Nikola D. Petkov. Record of the judicial Proceedings August 5 — 15, 1947

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English

published in 1947 by the Bulgarian Ministry of Information and Arts / Press Department

Proces suočavanja s prošlošću u Crnoj Gori : Slučaj "Porodica Klapuh"

Author(s): / Language(s): Montenegrine

The case of the murder of the Klapuh family on 6 July 1992 remains one of, if not the most shocking, war crimes committed on the territory of Montenegro. The brutality is not only reflected in the act of murdering three innocent members of a family, but also in the fact that this murder was committed by those who were supposed to provide them with protection and safely transport them to the territory of Montenegro. Their killers, in fact, gave them false hope that by crossing the border of Bosnia and Herzegovina and arriving in the war-torn territory of Montenegro, they would finally be safe, only to brutally kill them after crossing the border, not far from the border crossing.