Collection 3: Mark Aarons further papers relating to war crimes and other papers

MLMSS 10622

sub-fonds

probably between 1978 and 2000

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Textual Records, Clippings, Photographs

1120826

Partly Digitised

2.38 metres of textual material (14 boxes) includes photographs
24 audiotape reels (6 hr., 15 min.) - 12.5 cm, 6 mm tape
43 audiocassettes (41 hr., 30 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape

BOX 1 (14)
(formerly received as NEW BOX 35)
Folders, 1979-2005, partly relating to ABC Radio Broadband program on Lyenko Urbanchich on 27 Aug. 1979, including folders on Lyenko Urbanchich, Liberal Party of Australia, Bill Hayden, Tinbor Vajda, and folders of photocopied documents from National Archives of Australia relating to Australian Federal Police Nazi files and files on Latvian organisations

BOX 2 (14)
(formerly received as NEW BOX 40)
Computer printouts of transcribed documents from United States Archives and the Public Record Office, UK, arranged under the following folder titles from ‘INDS’ to ‘Slovenia / Ex PRO, Washington’:
‘INDS’
‘Italy’
‘Operation Keelhaul’
‘Krizari’
‘Computer Summary Urbancic’
‘NDH [Nezavisna Hrvatska Drzava (Independent State of Croatia)]’
‘Pavelic [Vilko Pechnikar]’
‘Rover [Sreko Rover]’
‘Agents’
‘Argen [Argentina]’ relating to Yugoslavian Quislings
‘Aust [Australia]’
‘Gen Pol [?]’
‘Slovenia / Ex PRO, Washington’
‘Leibler Letter Etc.’, 1985, 1988, being photocopied correspondence with Isi J. Leibler

‘Baume / Barbie’, 1983-1986, being folder relating to Senator Peter Baume and Australian investigations into Nazi war criminals, including Klaus Barbie
‘Nazis – Caucus Sub-Committee’
‘John Loftus / FOI Request’, 1985
‘John Loftus Correspondence’, 1985-1988, being photocopies of letters sent to John Loftus
‘The Ukraine’, 1941-1985
‘Nazi Series’, 1973-1987, relating to ABC Radio Background Briefing program
‘Peter Brown [Ministerial Press Officer, Office of NSW Premier]’
‘Special Investigations Unit’, 1987-1988

BOX 3 (14)
(formerly received as NEW BOX 57)
Press clippings re. War Crimes (Australian newspapers)

BOX 4 (14)
(formerly received as NEW BOX 59)
‘Revisionism & Holocaust’
‘Zionism & Nazism’
‘National Front’
‘Jewish Victims’’, including photocopy of letter from S. Erlich (President, Association of Jewish Victims of Nazi Persecution), 19 Dec. 1963
‘Basil Davidson’
‘War Crimes in Yugoslavia’
‘Svetolik Lazarevic / NZ [New Zealand] War Criminals’, ca. 1950-2008

BOX 5 (14)
(formerly received as NEW BOX 60)
Printed material relating to war crimes, including pamphlets and monographs, 1943-2005, (In English and Serbo-Croatian)

BOX 6 (14)
(formerly received as NEW BOX 61)
Printed material relating to war crimes, including pamphlets and monographs (In English Serbo-Croatian, French, German and Russian)

BOX 7 (14)
(formerly received as NEW BOX 62)
‘Tickner’, including photocopy of ‘List of Documents relating to Croatian Terrorist Activities in Australia’
‘John Loftus [US Attorney-at-Law]’ and material on War Crimes Prosecution Bill
‘Hubert Butler’
‘Wolfgang Sievers / Rochelle Stone’, 1990, being mainly correspondence, with photographs
‘SS Graves Article’, 1991-1995, relating to research material on article ‘SS Memorials in Melbourne Cemetery’
‘Generation [A Journal of Australian Jewish Life, Thought and Community]’, 1990, relating to publishing of the article ‘Exposing Nazis in Australia: An Inside Look at the Making of Sanctuary’
‘Bolkus Letter’ relating to, and including, copy of letter from Aarons to Senator Nick Bolkus (Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs), 30 Nov. 1995
‘Ustasha – Larson’, being photocopied typescript
‘Human Rights Award & Literary Award 1990’, 1990-1991, relating to award for Sanctuary: Nazi Fugitives in Australia (1989)
‘Anniversary of Croatian Independence’, 1999, being mainly photocopied articles from Australian Croatian newspapers

BOX 8 (14)
(formerly received as BOX 63)
Videorecordings, 1988-2004, being 12 VHS videocassettes and 2 Beta videocassettes, mainly of interviews with Mark Aarons on ABC-TV and SBS-TV current affairs programs

BOX 9 (14)
(formerly received as NEW BOX 63)
Video recordings, 1993, undated, being 8 VHS videocassettes of interviews by Scotland Yard with suspected Latvian war criminal, Harry Svikeris, 1993, and 1 VHS videocassette Ukrainian TV program on war criminals in the West

BOX 10 (14)
(formerly received as NEW BOX 64)
‘HDP (Croatian Movement for Statehood) – Background Documents’, being photocopies
‘HDP – Internal Documents’, being photocopies
‘HDP – Keig’ mainly relating to article by Nita Keig in Intercontionental Press, vol. 22 no. 19, 15 Oct 1994, and transcript of Background Briefing program on HDR, broadcast on 19 June 1983
‘HDP – Marx Centenary Conference’, 1983
‘HDP – SLL’, being publication How the SWP Promotes the Ustasha : A Workers News Investigation, ca. 1983
‘HDP – Stedul Testament’
‘HDP – SWP [Socialist Workers Party] Correspondence’, 1983
‘HDP Prog[ram] – Transcripts’, including 1 sound cassetteof Background Briefing program, 19 June 1983
‘HDP – Press Clippings’, 1982-1983

BOX 11 (14)
(formerly received as NEW BOX 65)
Klaus Barbie and the United States Government : A Report to the Attorney General of the United States, 1983 / submitted by Allan A. Ryan, Jr
Klaus Barbie and the United States Government : Exhibits to the Report to the Attorney General of the United States, 1983 / submitted by Allan A. Ryan, Jr

BOX 12 (14)
(formerly received as BOX 67)
‘Canberra Archives May 85’
Legal advice relating to manuscript by Mark Aarons on Nazi war criminals in Australia, 2001, with related papers

BOX 13 (14)
(formerly received as BOX 68)
Research file on Dragan Vasiljkovic [aka Daniel Snedden], being mainly photocopies and printouts
‘Captain Dragan’, 2004-2007, being folder of newscuttings from Australian newspapers on Dragan Vasiljkovic
Research file for book, War Criminals Welcome : Australia a Sanctuary for Fugitive War Criminals since 1945 (2001), including copies of transcripts of interviews, correspondence and newscuttings

BOX 14 (14)
East Timorese material
Clippings and publications


Note: Formerly received as BOX 66 (Type 2) (Call No.: MLOH 798):
Series 01: Mark Aarons further sound recordings

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The description of this material has been supplied from the Oral History Digitisation Program, undertaken 2014 to 2017, of the Library's oral history collections.