Overview
- Description
- Contains photocopies of documents, copyprint photographs, and a memoir documenting the Nazi persecution of members of the Walter Hamann family who were Jehovah's Witnesses. Hamann's memoir, "Extract of Memories," describes the conditions of his seven-plus years imprisonment in the concentration camp of Neusustrum, in a Düsseldorf police prison, and in Sachsenhausen, where his brother-in-law died from mistreatment. The photograph of Hamann and some of his male relatives is accompanied by information about their imprisonment. The collection also contains a description of Hamann's education and employment history before 1933 and a photocopy of a letter from Sachsenhausen with a censor's stamp describing the confiscation of the letter because the writer was an "obstinate" Jehovah's Witness.
- Date
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1992
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Personal narratives. Photographs. Letters.
- Extent
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1 folder
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- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
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Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Walter Hamann compiled the materials and donated them to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in September 1992.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-07-06 13:11:58
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