“Relief is a political gesture:” The Jewish Labor Committee’s interventions in war-torn Poland, 1939-1945

Poverty and persecution: the Reichsvereinigung, the Jewish population, and anti-Jewish policy in the Nazi state, 1939-1945.

This job can no longer provide any satisfaction. It now has very little in common with what we used to understand as welfare work. And when it's people that are involved, not property, liquidation is particularly rough. Yet just because we're dealing with human beings, you have those occasional moments when there seems to be some real meaning in still being here. Hannah Karminski (1897-1942), J...

The Mind and Stomach at War: Stress and Abdominal Illness in Britain c.1939–1945

Medical professionals are often obliged to engage with unforeseen problems during times of conflict. These typically emerge and develop unpredictably, giving rise to spates of internal biological disorders that may affect specific body areas or induce problematic forms of psychological behaviour. The phenomena of shell shock and Gulf War syndrome are prominent historical examples of these, both...

Dobroszycki and Kirshenblatt-Gimblett: Image Before My Eyes--A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland, 1864-1939

Patriotic War , 1941 to 1945 *

Economic Reconstruction of War-Torn Countries:

With the end of the Cold War, a large number of countries in the developing world emerged from civil conflict or another form of chaos in the early 1990s. While Cold War related conflicts winded down, a number of ethnic conflicts erupted, and several military interventions took place. Interventions were justified either for humanitarian purposes, as in the Balkans and several countries in Afric...