New website features WWI conscientious objectors
A website featuring a collection of over 700 digitized archival items from the Swarthmore College Peace Collection that relate to conscientious objection during World War I debuted in February. The website, âConscientious Objection and the Great War: 1914â1920,â was created and curated by Swarthmore archivist Anne Yoder.
The origins of the project go back to 2003 when the Peace Collection received a boxful of documents by brothers David and Julius Eichel, Jewish socialists who were both conscientious objectors (COs) during World War I. Unlike members ofđ
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