Archie Henderson - Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right - A Guide to Archives

Description: Materials of diverse character, mainly consisting of messages and investigations of activities of former members and functionaries of Nazi and collaborationist organizations (including the NSDAP, Freikorps, Wehrwolf, Hitlerjugend, Kuratorium, Vlajka). Screening of national and state loyalty of public and state employees. Enquiries, messages and protocol testimonies of persons detained in illegal state border crossings. Reports and investigations into activities of resistance and partisan groups. Reports on the activities of various associations in the Czech Socialist Republic (CSR), their characteristics, political focus and findings on functionaries and members, including the Rotary Club, Association of Friends of Democratic States, Association of Friends of the USA, spiritists, Masons, Jewish and Zionist associations, etc.

Websites with information:

http://www.abscr.cz/en/guide-to-the-collections

http://www.abscr.cz/en/guide-to-the-collections-a

http://www.abscr.cz/en/guide-to-the-collections-a-description

Finding aid:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110904211424/http://www.abscr.cz/data/pdf/abs/inventar-305.pdf

[0513] Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine et Mémorial de la Shoah

Location: 17, rue Geoffroy-l'Asnier, 75004 Paris, France

Description: In 1943 the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation, or CDJC) was founded in Grenoble as a clandestine organisation. Its specific objective was to document the Shoah by pooling the information of Jewish organizations and scholars and by collecting documentary evidence. After the liberation of France in 1944, the founder, Isaac Schneersohn, and Léon Poliakov, in charge of research, moved the CDJC to Paris to save it from destruction and to sequester the archives of the Vichy government and of the German occupying forces. Among documents that they obtained were the French archives of the Gestapo, part of the Wehrmacht archives, and Vichy documents. Later the CDJC became one of the official repositories of the Nuremberg trial documents. In addition to the minutes and background documentation for the trials, the CDJC obtained original archival material and the personal archives of Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi Party ideologue and ERR chief. (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) was a looting agency set up in July-August 1940 to spoliate western Europe's cultural heritage, but especially Jewish libraries, archives, and private art collections and, later on in the war, to pillage cultural objects in south east Europe and the former Soviet Union.) The archive collections currently contain more than thirty million archive documents, including papers from the Direction Régionale de l'Aryanization Economique de Toulouse; documents from the French Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (General Commission on Jewish Affairs), the agency principally active in stripping French Jews of their property and transcripts of the trials of the top level of management; the archives of Georges Montandon (1879-1944), a Swiss anthropologist and "expert on racial issues" with the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (CGQJ). This partial archive group covers the period from 1924 to 1944 and deals first with his scientific ethnology work, then with his activities in anti-Jewish propaganda from 1938; and records of the Institut d'Étude des Questions Juives or IEQJ (a German organisation created by Theodor Dannecker in 1941 for anti-Jewish propaganda set up under the Occupation).

Websites with information:

http://www.memorial-cdjc.org/index.php/en/archives-and-documentation/the-archives-department/the-catalogue-of-archives

http://www.memorialdelashoah.fr/index.php/en/archives-and-documentation/the-archives-department/the-catalogue-of-archives/

https://www.holocaustremembrance.com/itfdirectory/organization/show/3388

http://www.lootedart.com/MFEU4B37218_print;Y

[0514] Centre for Policy Studies, 1974-1991, Ref. No. CPS

Location: Archive and Special collections, British Library of Political and Economic Science, 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD, England

Description: The Centre for Policy Studies was established by Margaret Thatcher and Keith Joseph in 1974 as an independent centre right think tank with a remit to develop and publish public policy proposals and arrange seminars and lectures on topical policy issues, with a view to influencing policy world-wide. According to its mission statement, the core principles upon which the Centre bases its policy proposals include the value of free markets, the importance of individual choice and responsibility, and the concepts of duty, family, respect for the law, national independence, individualism, and liberty. This collection is composed of various administrative records, publications, reports, and papers of study groups of the Centre for Policy Studies.

Reference:

The Routledge Guide to British Political Archives: Sources since 1945, [edited by] Chris Cook in association with the LSE Library (London, New York, Routledge, 2006), pp. 258-259.

Finding aid:

http://archives.lse.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=CPS&pos=8

[0515] Centro operativo tra genitori per l'iniziativa democratica e antifascista nella scuola (Cogidas), bb. 14 (1971-1978)

Location: Istituto romano per la storia d'italia dal fascismo alla resistenza, Piazza di Porta Capena 1 - 00184 Roma, Italy

Description: Documents, flyers, correspondence, newsletters, press clippings, and magazines on the initiatives of Cogidas, as well as a collection of press clippings on neo-fascist violence in schools in Rome and other issues.

Reference:

Guida alle fonti per la storia dei movimenti in Italia (1966-1978), a cura di Marco Grispigni and Leonardo Musci (Roma: Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali, 2003), http://www.archivi.beniculturali.it/dga/­uploads/documents/Strumenti/Strumenti_CLXII.pdf.

[0515a] Century Company records, 1870-1930s (bulk 1886-1918), MssCol 504 [partly digital collection]

Location: Manuscripts and Archives Division, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328, New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788

Description: The Century Company, founded in New York City in 1881, published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The records chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. Series I. General Correspondence, contains files on Brooks Adams, Gertrude Breckenridge Beeks (Mrs. Ralph M. Easley), Hilaire Belloc, Charles Francis Brush, Luther Burbank, Nicholas Murray Butler, John Jay Chapman, Arthur Cherep-Spiridovich, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Ralph Adams Cram, George Creel, Josephus Daniels, Charles Benedict Davenport, Alexander Del Mar, C.F. Dight, Ralph Montgomery Easley, Max Forrester Eastman, Thomas Alva Edison, Livingston Farrand, Irving Fisher, Henry H. Goddard, Madison Grant, Prescott F. Hall, Archibald Henderson, Hamilton Holt, Rossiter Johnson, David Starr Jordan, Paul Underwood Kellogg, Rudyard Kipling, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, David Lubin, Paul Elmer More, National Economic League, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Robert L. Owen, Sir William Mathew Flinders Petrie, Gifford Pinchot, Ezra Pound, Ogden Mills Reid, Edith Kermit (Carow) Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Edward A. Rumely, Jouett Shouse, Marie C. Stopes, George Sylvester Viereck, Oswald Garrison Villard, Luigi Villari, William Allen White, John Sharp Williams, Jennings C. Wise, Owen Wister, and Robert Mearns Yerkes.

Finding aids:

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504

http://archives.nypl.org/uploads/collection/generated_finding_aids/mss504.pdf

http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/ead/nypl/msscentu/@Generic__BookTextView/