Covers the war crimes trials of 5,700 individuals in the wake of World War II. Crimes ranged from military aggression to crimes against humanity (the Nanking Massacre). CRL holds complete transcripts of proceedings, statements, inventories of exhibits called into evidence, indexes for witnesses, judgements and opinions, and staff historical files.
This three-unit set is a collection of documents from the Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief. Documents include minutes from meetings that set in place relief efforts for German Jews as early as 1933, reports on the growing pressure to create an independent Jewish state, and post-war documents dealing with resettlement and restitution for those affected by Nazi actions.
pt. 1. Archives, files 1–110 (20 reels)
pt. 2. Archives, files 111–208 (19 reels)
pt. 3. Archives, files 209–341 (35 reels)
CRL holdings include 543 rolls of microfilm containing court documents (processos) from Brazil’s Military Supreme Court. These proceedings document the cases of over 7,000 persons arrested, charged, convicted, or executed by the Court between 1964 and 1979. The official records, which were copied in secret, document human-rights violations by the military government in Brazil during this period.
A collection on microfiche produced by the Library of Congress field office in New Delhi, this series reproduces pamphlets and publications from organizations such as the Association for Protection of Democratic Rights, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, Ganatantrika Adhikara Raksha Samiti, Indian People’s Human Rights Commission, Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights, Peoples Union for Democratic Rights, and the Punjab Human Rights Organisation.
CRL also has related sets on fiche collected in Bangladesh, Kashmir, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
The United Nations General Assembly published the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which defined the modern concept of human rights developed in the aftermath of World War II. The activities of human rights advocacy groups, courts, media, governments, and the victims and survivors of violations generate a wide variety of documentation, including:
Records from PIDEE archive in Santiago, Chile. Consists of case files for children and families to whom services were supplied by PIDEE. Case files are arranged arranged as follows: Section I. Missing detainees; Section II. Persons executed for political reasons; Section III. Political prisoners; Section IV. Former political prisoners; Section V. Persons returning from exile; Section VI. Family reunification; Section VII. Persons subject to restricted residence order; Section VII. Special cases (persecutions, threats, or others)
Source materials on modern German anti-semitism, national socialism, and the Holocaust. The collection of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research contains extensive collections of Nazi-German publications about Jews, Judaism, and the "Jewish Question". The vast majority of the collection dates from the Nazi period, although a substantial number of works were published during the Weimar Republic.
Collection of over 100,000 pages from the Khmer Rouge state police archives were preserved by the Documentation Center of Cambodia. Types of documents include: confessions, letters, lists, petitions, meeting minutes, Khmer Rouge notebook, political training, medical training, military training, revolutionary songs, personal accounts, slogans, poems.
Collection of ephemera that includes printed materials authored by the Sendero Luminoso and reports of the Peruvian government institutions trying to contain the insurrection launched by this group. Filmed from the holdings of the Princeton University Library.
Newspapers published in Mogadishu, Hargeisa, and other locations after the overthrow of Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991. They document the growing instability and violence within the country. CRL holdings through 1996. Collected and assembled by the Library of Congress, Nairobi Office, and filmed in two parts, part 1 and